The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS! — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior. — Ellis Paul Torrance Copy Share Image
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you. — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image