If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible...

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

I don’t think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we’re sitting here? Solving...

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the...

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we’re ashamed of our bodies as to where it’s a law to wear fabrics,...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there’s something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return,...

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk – lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic,...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating...

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re – we’re feeling machines that happen to think.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it —...

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ’emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or...

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes...

It was a wonderful being, Sarah. Capable of great good, and great evil. Yes, I think you could say it was human.

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That’s not just between blacks and whites. That’s between all religions as well.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people....

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective...

High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn’t bomb the rail lines to Hitler’s camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of...

There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity’s maelstrom from time to time, or sit...

It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Cine naiba se crede el ?”. Întrebarea nu i se adresa lui Cézanne în particular, ci speciei umane în general. Cine se credeau oamenii ?

On peut faire la grève tout, sauf d’être.

If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of...

When my son speaks of playing sports, I’ve always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I’ve always told my son: most of the...

Lonely is the world largely for those who have earned the wealth a lot or who have learned the truth a lot. The former never acknowledges it and the later never experiences it.

She starts to cry. ‘It’s just so terrible,’ she says.’Which part?,’ I ask.’Being human.

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts – somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is...

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.

Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the divider of humanity. If every human could be removed of their blindfolds and see that faith is in...

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we...

science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such...

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between–Is my journey’s end coming?