Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my… — Raul Castillo Copy Share Image
“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and… — Roberts Liardon Copy Share Image
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being;… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise,… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image