Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
People like to say that Plutarch's is a really "personal" voice, but in truth Plutarch tells us very little about his life.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not… — Hans Holzer Copy Share Image
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth.… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech,… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and… — Ron Pope Copy Share Image