To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
