The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Suicide during a state of temporary insanity,” is passed, have been caused by long and hopeless brooding on the “nothingness of the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Who cares whether or not I said that he said that she said that they said that ... who the hell knows… — Aindra Das Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There appears no assurance that in the times of our own grandchildren the world will contain viable populations of wild African Lions,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Human life is insignificant. What’s ominous is the movement of the spheres. When I settled here, a sun speck sat on the… — Yuri Olesha Copy Share Image
I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It’s another instance… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“The discouragement of sleeping with the baby at night, which had been the norm since the dawn of human life, spread throughout… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“These days, there are few researchers,if any,who are really thinking about extracellular genetics.Sooner or later, nobody will be able to talk about… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to… — Paul Nouge Copy Share Image
“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment… — British Humanist Association Copy Share Image
“The key question in every transaction is whether or not the transaction contributes to the flourishing of each person involved, and this… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
