There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease,… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. — Madonna Kolbenschlag Copy Share Image
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but… — Joyce Jillson Copy Share Image
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are… — Carver Mead Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle… — Duane Hanson Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000.… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
