The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more… — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life,… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“As already mentioned, some say that by 2050 a few humans will already be a-mortal.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
