A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms... to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human… — Ephraim Katzir Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“And yet there’s other species even closer to zero. I know that. And I hope to God somebody else is worrying about… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill… — Vernon Coleman Copy Share Image
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos 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
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Your blood's a testament to that long line of troubling history; it's nothing you can't handle. The president-elect of the United States… — Chip Livingston Copy Share Image
We deeply regret Sen. Frist's endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for… — David Stevens Copy Share Image
