In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently . — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our… — Jussie Smollett Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
There is not a single country in the world that is not interested in doing business with China. And no one is… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
