I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about… — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of… — David Rudolf Copy Share Image
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human… And although you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th'… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
