The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their… — Harriet Taylor Mill Copy Share Image
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The… — George Madison Adams Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data,… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the… — James Carville Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Every human being has to find their own peace. Peace is within you and me. When you and I can experience who… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of… — Piri Thomas Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is… — Billy Meier Copy Share Image
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image