Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The question is the same, for it springs from the same ground: the human situation, the conditions of the human existence. The… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“humans use to support human superiority is that supposedly only Homo sapiens have a conscious mind. Different from soul, the mind is… — GBF Summary Copy Share Image
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — Russ Harris Copy Share Image
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Most people regard death as the greatest of evils, only because they fear death. They fear death only because they have the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a… — David Gershon Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The world is on the threshold of a new atomic age. It can become for mankind an era of unparalled darkness or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“New places and new roles forced me into acute awareness of how others were responding to me. When a human is being… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed,… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When we psychologize human suffering, we narrow our focus to the individual—perhaps in order to be less overwhelmed by the sheer enormity… — Miriam Greenspan Copy Share Image
What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Man ( the human ego) is not so much destroying the planet as it is destroying itself. The planet will Be Here… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image