Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future. — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image