The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Mungu ni mtakatifu na kwa maana hiyo hatendi dhambi. Hivyo, hauwi wala hatesi. Tunajiua na kujitesa wenyewe. Ametupa hiari ya kuchagua mema… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the… — Lokendra Singh Copy Share Image
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence;… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image