We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. Votes: 3
Antonin ArtaudTo confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Votes: 2
Stephen HawkingI don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. Votes: 2
Felix FrankfurterHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Votes: 2
Blaise PascalHuman beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. Votes: 2
Dean KoontzSome of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it. Votes: 3 Richard Hatch
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before. Votes: 1 Alison Goldfrapp
Never say you know the last word about any human heart. Votes: 3 Henry James
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. Votes: 2 Greg Graffin
There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate. Votes: 3 Peter F. Hamilton
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. Votes: 4 John Warnock
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. Votes: 4 Imelda Marcos
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what. Votes: 4 Lady Gaga
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. Votes: 4 George Orwell
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. Votes: 3 Dorothy Height
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. Votes: 2 Garrett Hardin
It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe . Votes: 3 Raila Odinga
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. Votes: 4 Paul Wellstone
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. Votes: 3 Gerry Adams
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. Votes: 3 Theodore Bikel
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Votes: 2 Tom Hanks
I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life. Votes: 3 Osama bin Laden
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. Votes: 3 Xun Zi
Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time. Votes: 3 Gene Chandler
I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human. Votes: 3 David Simon
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. Votes: 4 Dalai Lama
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. Votes: 4 W. H. Auden
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Votes: 2 Baruch Spinoza
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. Votes: 3 Michio Kaku
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. Votes: 1 Clive Bell
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. Votes: 1 Clive Bell
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom. Votes: 3 L. Ron Hubbard
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. Votes: 4 Susan Rice
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. Votes: 2 H. Allen Smith
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before. Votes: 2 Alison Goldfrapp
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. Votes: 1 Edward Thorndike
Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance. Votes: 3 David Icke
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. Votes: 3 Knute Nelson
Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance. Votes: 5 Bela Karolyi
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. Votes: 5 Dennis Prager
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. Votes: 2 Joe Eszterhas
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Votes: 2 Jackie Robinson
Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines. Votes: 3 David Porush
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. Votes: 1 Hugh Masekela
We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights. Votes: 1 Oscar Arias
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Votes: 6 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Votes: 4 Edward de Bono
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. Votes: 2 Isabel Allende
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home. Votes: 3 Nick Hornby
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. Votes: 4 Marianne Williamson
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Votes: 4 Leon Kass
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. Votes: 1 Imelda Marcos
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. Votes: 4 Rowan Williams
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Votes: 2 Nelson Mandela
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. Votes: 5 George Soros
Tech is all about building human connections. Votes: 7 Padmasree Warrior
Tech is all about building human connections. Votes: 4 Padmasree Warrior
I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy. Votes: 3 Jaden Smith
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Votes: 5 Martha Beck
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Votes: 4 Benjamin Disraeli
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Votes: 6 Pope John Paul II
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. Votes: 4 Phil Hine
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. Votes: 4 Chauncey Wright
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. Votes: 3 Norman Cousins
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Votes: 5 Kofi Annan
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. Votes: 1 David Christian
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Votes: 4 Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Votes: 4 Ruth Benedict
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. Votes: 5 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being. Votes: 2 Michael Bolton
It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality. Votes: 3 Paul J. Crutzen
There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right? Votes: 2 Joyce Meyer
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. Votes: 2 Viktor Korchnoi
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. Votes: 2 Zig Ziglar
My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces. Votes: 4 Karan Johar
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore. Votes: 3 Tahereh Mafi
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. Votes: 2 George Orwell
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. Votes: 4 Florence King
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Votes: 7 Blaise Pascal
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. Votes: 4 William Irwin Thompson
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Votes: 4 Carl Jung
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Votes: 4 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over. Votes: 3 Zeena Schreck
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. Votes: 3 Paul Nitze
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large. Votes: 3 Ted Gup
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. Votes: 4 Joseph Jarman
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. Votes: 2 William Wilberforce
Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family. Votes: 4 Rick Smolan
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. Votes: 3 Rupert Sheldrake
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust. Votes: 3 Christopher Hitchens
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. Votes: 3 Malcolm X
there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing. Votes: 3 Deborah Harkness
In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules. Votes: 4 Paul Rand
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines. Votes: 4 Roger Ebert
We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. "¦ But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed). Votes: 4 Matthew Crawford
God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day. Votes: 3 William Blake
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Votes: 3 Albert Einstein
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Votes: 2 Virginia Woolf
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. Votes: 5 Stephen Covey
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. Votes: 2 George Santayana
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome. Votes: 4 Bruce H. Lipton
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. Votes: 4 Josephine Hart
For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development. Votes: 4 Michael Taylor
For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development. Votes: 3 Michael Taylor
Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications. Votes: 3 Sylvester Stallone
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. Votes: 2 James Madison
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. Votes: 2 P. J. O'Rourke
I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted. Votes: 2 John Gurdon
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Votes: 5 Nikola Tesla
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination Votes: 3 William Blake
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. Votes: 2 Ben Okri
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. Votes: 3 Frances Wright
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. Votes: 4 Stone Gossard
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Votes: 3 Ronald Reagan
There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing. Votes: 4 Orlando Bloom
It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose the joke, which is that this is painful and hard. Votes: 4 Nicholas Stoller
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war. Votes: 5 John Haynes Holmes
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. Votes: 4 P. T. Barnum
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Votes: 2 Thomas Paine
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Votes: 4 Arthur C. Clarke
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out. Votes: 3 John Shelby Spong
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Votes: 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Votes: 4 Jimmy Wales
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic. Votes: 3 David Novak
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good. Votes: 3 Saint Augustine
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. Votes: 5 Simone de Beauvoir
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises. Votes: 2 Saint Francis de Sales
I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. Votes: 4 Wale
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward. Votes: 3 Ellsworth Huntington
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Votes: 6 Edmund Burke
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. Votes: 3 James Alison
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Votes: 4 Dale Carnegie
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. Votes: 3 Xun Zi
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. Votes: 3 Xun Zi
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Votes: 5 Michael Shermer
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Votes: 3 Liu Xiaobo
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Votes: 1 Sidney Hook
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. Votes: 2 George Eastman
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... Votes: 3 Edgar Allan Poe
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Votes: 4 Nikolai Gogol
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. Votes: 3 James Balog
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 1 Pir Vilayat Khan
There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error. Votes: 3 Thomas Bangalter
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected. Votes: 4 Hans Kung
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. Votes: 2 Maxwell Maltz
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. Votes: 3 Morris Raphael Cohen
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. Votes: 1 Eddie Bernice Johnson
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. Votes: 2 Lawrence M. Krauss
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers. Votes: 3 M. King Hubbert
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential. Votes: 6 Donald Sadoway
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Votes: 2 Horace Mann
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. Votes: 2 Henry Clay
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. Votes: 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Votes: 2 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss. Votes: 2 Anne Grant
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. Votes: 4 Willard Van Orman Quine
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Votes: 3 Joseph Chamberlain
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Votes: 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Votes: 2 Nicolaus Copernicus
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. Votes: 5 Amelia Barr
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. Votes: 6 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration. Votes: 3 Edgar Allan Poe
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. Votes: 3 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. Votes: 1 James Buchan
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week. Votes: 5 Kevin P. Ryan
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin' Votes: 4 Barry McGuire
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. Votes: 4 George W. Bush
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. Votes: 2 Jon Corzine
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 4 Jimmy Carter
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement. Votes: 1 Michael Ignatieff
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. Votes: 3 Daryl Hannah
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. Votes: 1 Stockwell Day
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. Votes: 4 Curt Weldon
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. Votes: 3 Dick Morris
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. Votes: 2 Albert Schweitzer
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. Votes: 1 Henry Rollins
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. Votes: 4 Samuel R. Delany
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. Votes: 4 Samuel R. Delany
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Votes: 6 Woodrow Wilson
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. Votes: 1 Jeremy Rifkin
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. Votes: 3 Hermann Nothnagel
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind. Votes: 3 Gene Logsdon
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. Votes: 3 Malcolm X
Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_ are not to promote the _we-ness-in-sameness_, but rather the we-ness-in-alterity_.Unlike the solidarity-in-sameness, cosmopolitan _solidarity-in-alterity_ celebrates the singularity and difference of each individual human being while not denying the historical necessity of the strategic construction of _we_ to challenge the very sociopolitically imposed category Votes: 1 Namsoon Kang
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Votes: 4 Ferdinand Foch
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. Votes: 3 Eugene Cernan
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. Votes: 3 George Carlin
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Votes: 4 Bernard Williams
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. Votes: 4 Lewis Carroll
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. Votes: 3 Gustave Flaubert
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. Votes: 4 Jose Marti
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. Votes: 2 Adlai E. Stevenson
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. Votes: 4 H. G. Wells
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Votes: 3 Tennessee Williams
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. Votes: 1 Eric Liu
Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time Votes: 4 Condoleezza Rice
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. Votes: 4 G. Stanley Hall
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. Votes: 4 Frank Lloyd Wright
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Votes: 2 Desmond Tutu
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. Votes: 6 Liv Ullmann
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race. Votes: 3 Margaret Sanger
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Votes: 2 Kurt Vonnegut
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know. Votes: 4 Moliere
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. Votes: 2 Joseph Stalin
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. Votes: 2 Charles Stanley
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. Votes: 2 Nathan Myhrvold
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. Votes: 3 Christopher Monckton
The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. Votes: 2 Robert Lanza
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Votes: 1 Joichi Ito
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past. Votes: 3 Wendell Berry
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals. Votes: 1 Peter Singer
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. Votes: 1 Lewis B. Smedes
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. Votes: 3 Christopher Locke
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.' Votes: 1 Stephane Hessel
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. Votes: 4 Emma Goldman
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. Votes: 2 Jim Morrison
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. Votes: 3 Melissa Etheridge
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. Votes: 5 Daniel De Leon
Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead. Votes: 1 Billy Graham
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way. Votes: 5 Alison Gopnik