As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are:… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of,… — Hannah Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in… — Prince Augustus William of Prussia Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It… — Will Young Copy Share Image
If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image