Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
If you have birds, or if you're a herpetologist and raise reptiles - you look in those eyes, and there is nothing… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and… — William James Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know… — Pindar Copy Share Image
I get tested for HIV twice a year...One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image