“We're humans, not machines. We have bad days. We have mental difficulties. We are inspired, yet we fail. We are not linear.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our world needs us to show up and stand up for our beliefs. I just hope we're civil and respectful. When we… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“when a seven years old girl comes to our car and knocks at the glass because she wants 10 rupees to buy… — Iqra Ijaz Copy Share Image
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“When you see that a person's defects and bad qualities are so obvious, try to feel immediately that his defects and bad… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Humanity thinks it needs to constantly evolve so that maybe someday, old age and sickness will be eradicated from existence. However, our… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Do you really not know of the magnificence of war? Or how worthless peace is? Peace only leads mankind to depravity! What… — Go Nagai Copy Share Image
When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity,… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
All around us people are suffering from stress, fear, sorrow, pain, and fear of future suffering, especially death. None of these are… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life.… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between… — Cari Linneaus Copy Share Image
The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image