Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

E. O. Wilson

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

Francis Collins

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Frederick Douglass

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Charlotte Eriksson

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

Camille Guaty

Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.

Charles F. Glassman

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.

Conor Oberst

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Clay Shirky

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Herbert Read

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Howard Rheingold

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Jane Austen

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Jonathan Ames

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

John Quincy Adams

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

John Berger

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

John Berger

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Julia Bacha

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Emma Goldman