A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the… — Moby Copy Share Image
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out. — Ramman Kenoun Copy Share Image
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have… — Ted Turner 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
he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to… — Shailesh Rao Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you… — J.R. Ward 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
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
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species. — Adam West Copy Share Image
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image