Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little… — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it… — William James Copy Share Image
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell… Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for… — Herbert Wind Copy Share Image
The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image