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’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
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
“..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
“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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“To enlarge the human perspective, to build on knowledge for future generations, to identify dangers, and to chart the course to a… — Jacques-Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from… — C. J. Wagevier Copy Share Image
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
“Humans are like kids in a playground. They play and enjoy their selves if they got into the right ride, but every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Our essential connection with animals is ancient, and it runs deep. It extends from body to behavior, from psychology to society—forming the… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest challenges today is the relationship between unity and diversity. If we don't have a sense of what holds… — Gedeon Naudet Jules Naudet Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an… — Perrie Edwards Copy Share Image
“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the… — David Felten Copy Share Image
“Whatever can be the meaning of this life? If we divide mankind into two large classes, we can say that one works… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“In psychologist Marion Woodman’s Leaving My Father’s House I read: “When humans suffer they are vulnerable. Within this vulnerability lives the humility… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and,… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. Humans are always on the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have fashioned with their… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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
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