The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five… — David Small Copy Share Image
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live.… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No up. No down. No sky. No ground. Just endless dark shot through with tiny spears of sunlight older than you and… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have… — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings.… — RM Copy Share Image
The switch that I'd like to throw on is the one that says, "Look, you're a human being whose mind is every… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
