“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“You make your whole existence dependant on another human being you’re asking for a world of trouble. Think of every tragic love… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies,cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms-greed… — Gordon Gekko Copy Share Image
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule… — Rob Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. This… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So we go around pigeonholing everything. We put cows in cowsheds, horses in stables, pigs in pigsties, and chickens in chicken coops.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
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To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“I am talking about self absorbtion. If you think about it, the human race is pretty self absorbed. Racism might be the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Monster a person though monster not human. Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann! World full of stupid. World full of noise.… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“The moment you try to theorize basic human values, you inadvertently start digging your own grave, and that's exactly what the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“discrimination had to be justified by “scientific” evidence showing that human nature differs according to age, gender, and “race.” Until the 1700s,… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“(My greatest human flaw and strength, not surprisingly, is that I can always imagine anything--a marriage, a conversation, a government--as being different… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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