“Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”— Mary Wollstonecraft, amazon.com
“I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on Earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”— Bill Hicks, theunboundedspirit.com
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com
“If you wanted fair, you chose the wrong job, the wrong profession, the wrong species.”— Sean Whitesell, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat.”— Matt Witten, Peter Blake, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”— Leonardo da Vinci, amazon.com
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's grea…”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com