“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is… — John Gray Copy Share Image
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru,… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependance upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for… — Bill W Copy Share Image
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will?… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it. — Nagaru Tanigawa Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image