God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than… — Lisa Hoffman Copy Share Image
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Im human. I make mistakes. I fall. I cry. sometimes, I talk without thinking first. sometimes, I judge others. sometimes, I do… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people,… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image