“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“What if this is it? What if I've set a series of events into motion that will doom me to be trapped… — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Spiritual Maturity is not how much of the bible you think you know, or how well you can recite prayers, but rather,… — Andrew Chong Copy Share Image
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Thus, from the first divine contract, and the pure region where truth abides, a continuous chain of mercies and light extends to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
“Of all animal species, humans are the biggest players of all. We are built to play and built through play. When we… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one’s own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
“They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don’t… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
“To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
