In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“He said slowly, “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr Copy Share Image
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There’s no such thing as 'one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form… — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine,… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks Copy Share Image