Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result?… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In most ecological systems you have a composite, biotic components as well as abiotic components acting together to form a whole, whereas… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things.… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Do not walk in the path of human reason, and resist the pressures that would project you into conjectures about the future.… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench!… — John Green Copy Share Image
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
