I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.
The only reason we live is also the reason we often die, even in a matter of seconds.
There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason ...
Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its every feature by the light of reason. The atheist does not boast of knowing in a vainglorious, empty sense. He understan...
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal ri...
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you ...
If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with oth...
When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around. The more lights are lit, the more huma...
…Mellor’s statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.
