Brainy-quotes Quote by Abhijit Naskar

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

— Ian Somerhalder

“...human progress has depended on enlarging the circle of compassion.”

— Carl Safina

We are a compassionate society.

— Tom Price

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

— D. C. Fontana

“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can…

— Alexander Edmonds

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have…

— Frank Grillo

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

— Karen Armstrong

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always…

— Eckhart Tolle