Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Being human trespass the conditionings of the laws of the worlds that have been created by the conditioned society — these reflective… — AainaA-Ridtz A R Copy Share Image
“As God’s self-knowledge lies in the eternal Spirit, so man’s self-knowledge is by his own spirit, and his knowledge of God is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“[H]umans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“[T]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“In the past few thousand years—a mere split second in evolutionary time—humanity has achieved incredible advances in the differentiation of consciousness. We… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Homo industrialis. We are so industrial (but not so wise) that we are creating a world more like the late Precambrian than… — Lisa-Ann Gershwin Copy Share Image
“It’s like everything in this life. We humans form a big circle. If people leave it, the circle becomes smaller and smaller… — Ellin Carsta Copy Share Image
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Every single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every moment, behind the most efficient seeming adult… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
![“[H]umans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language. This is a terrible thing because basically we are primates who've been programmed to eat, sleep, reproduce, conquer and make our territory safe, and the ones who are most…” quote by Muriel Barbery](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6e6/muriel-barbery-1092_nature-of-man_h-umans-live-in-a-world-where-it-s-words_1699202.jpg)
![“The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural…” quote by Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4fc/albert-schweitzer-701_fifth_the-fundamental-rights-of-humanity-are-f_2883591.jpg)
![“[T]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. … [E]nvision us approaching and pounding on this door, increasingly hard, pounding and pounding…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/792/david-foster-wallace-161_adversity_t-he-horrific-struggle-to-establish-a-hu_2637604.jpg)
![“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table. [Mr Harrington's washing]” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a0e/w-somerset-maugham-237_admiration_though-he-had-both-esteem-and-admiration_120835.jpg)
