There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the… — Jody Heymann Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it.… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,… — Miriam A. Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact,… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
