We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization.… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.'… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many… — Edward Luck Copy Share Image
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western.… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that… — Eric Horvitz Copy Share Image
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
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Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even… — Sheila Heen Copy Share Image
The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it?… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
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