We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat… — Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“Its all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs… — John Green Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements… — Theodor Svedberg Copy Share Image
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
“We therefore conclude that no philosophy and no system of life produced by human thought can have the characteristic of "comprehensiveness." At… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all.… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
