Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of… — Laurene Powell Jobs Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. — U Thant Copy Share Image
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
