I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that’s become ever… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings. — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field! — Abby Wambach Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we… — Nathan Lewis Copy Share Image
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life. — Leston Havens Copy Share Image
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
![“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b21/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-belie_3215841.jpg)
