The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex,… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and… — Clarence Robison Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in? — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
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