You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity. — Dana Snyder Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know.… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it… — Eqbal Ahmad Copy Share Image
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct… — George Soros Copy Share Image
