Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours....… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most… — Seymour S. Kety Copy Share Image
Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The increasing presence of cloud computing and mobile smart phones is driving the digitization of everything across both consumer and enterprise domains.… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the… — Huell Howser Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is,… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image