We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take… — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment…… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios… — Corrado Balducci Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them.… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate… — Gavin Schmidt Copy Share Image
True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn) You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and,… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image