Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that this resistance to killing one’s fellow man is there and that it exists as a result… — Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Copy Share Image
“It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity,… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“We have already observed that by excluding the immense majority of the human species from its midst, by keeping this majority outside… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“The desire to be exalted or thought as, if not superior, at least distinct, by the rest of humanity is a widespread… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
“This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“4. There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and… — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” but conscience is what gives us our humanity, the factor that separates us from animals.… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“One eye-witness reported that: '...it seems more like the celebration of the orgies of Bacchus, than the memory of a pious saint,… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
“Every particle that makes up a human being has things that make it totally authentic and unique. Each person has the ability… — Paola Sanjinez Copy Share Image
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to… — John Tooby Copy Share Image
“I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He reaches under the desk and takes out a book. It is thick, with a worn cover and frayed edges. On it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“God created the world in the way that he saw fit, and humans should not question the divinely appointed order. All wisdom… — Grant R. Osborne Copy Share Image
There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image