Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are… — William C. Roberts Copy Share Image
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is… — Marieta Maglas Copy Share Image
There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
I'm being sincere and I'm being human. I'm making mistakes or I'm doing things correctly, but I'm being human regardless. I'm talking… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures. — Walter Zettl Copy Share Image
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. — African Spir Copy Share Image
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Without visionaries, humanity would have been still competing with other animals and living in cages...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
