Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us)… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I deny not the course itself of events, which lies open to every one's inquiry and examination. I acknowledge, that, in the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to… — Alex Bruce Copy Share Image
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or… — John Rae Copy Share Image
The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“I never did manage to lose weight, though - not significantly - and my minor "successes" weren't through any eating patterns that… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
