“Saint Augustine proliferated central theological and political doctrines of the Church, following Saint Paul closely. History is the scene of the struggle… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be… — Edward Lee Thorndike Copy Share Image
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?'… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“It seems that human nature is very prone to believe what it wants to believe, rather than to incur the labor of… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Across that threshold I had been afraid to cross, things suddenly seemed so very simple. There was but a single vision, God,… — Walter J. Ciszek Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“The facts were strongly behind his client. But the legal battle could be drawn out for months; no one stood to gain… — Ghandi Palanithurai Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Pro-life Christians content that although humans differ in their respective degrees of development, they are nonetheless equal because they share a common… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when… — Annabelle Wallis Copy Share Image
“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The foundation of government is . . . laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is said that real human nature reveals itself under extreme conditions. As I starved in prison, I realizes that eating was… — Andy Raskin Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.... — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Extreme Amount Of Happiness And Pain Can Be Felt Only If You Trust Someone Very Truly From Heart. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
