Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but… — Marton Csokas Copy Share Image
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again,… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
“Human life begins by crying! Once a baby is born, it cries out. Maybe it cries in joy! So, the simple equation… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all one common… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Kane Copy Share Image
The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked;… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only… — John Milton Copy Share Image
