And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras Copy Share Image
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. — Theo van Boven Copy Share Image
What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. — Niklas Luhmann Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than… — Chris Milk Copy Share Image
Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe. — Jeremy Riddle Copy Share Image
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
