Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ… — Ram Swarup Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor.… — Dennis Dugan Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members… — Israel Shahak Copy Share Image
