Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1)… — Sally Miller Gearhart Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands,… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
I'm such a product of my media diet... it's interesting that you say what I do is observational. It's observational as far… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. .… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money.… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
