We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“It’s difficult to imagine that Artificial Intelligence will take the place of people but many believe that it’s only a short time… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image