The way that we make dumb decisions and discriminatory decisions is by employing stereotypes about groups of people. We don't see people… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We are not beautiful because we fit the popular ideal of beauty, and we are not ugly or unattractive because we don’t… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after… — Tom Metzger Copy Share Image
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks,… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image