The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“...the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“You came here [to this life] to enjoy the fullness of the creative experience. [Both smooth and rough patches]. In the process,… — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
“Last, but by no means least, the advance of technology has produced a human population that is far more helpless and dependent… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
The roots of all conflicts could be traced to the violation of human rights. When we think of violation of human rights,… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“for as health is but one thing, and has been always the same, whereas diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“But I can tell you the reason for me being so youthful-looking for a man a century and a half old. I’m… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
“The Internet has created the most precise mirror of people as a whole that we've yet had. It is not a summary… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don’t relate with each other because people in those societies think, act… — Zaman Ali Copy Share Image
As humans our hangups seem to shape our interaction with the world around us. They are often the source of our intolerance… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“From my readings, I had learned of a vast pool of human knowledge that both included books and went far beyond them… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his world. They will be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A human haz no religion...belongz to no race..n iz beyond da limitaitonz of gender...A human iz one that feelz pain in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image