Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it… — Paul Eddington Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race… — Matt Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally… — James Joll Copy Share Image
There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image