There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think that humans are also set up to survive. We're not as small as rats, but we make up for that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America's leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is,… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image