A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.” — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Those who adhere to principles of nonviolence in the face of colonial oppression are taunted with the ethical impossibility of their positions—… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man… — F. R. Scott Copy Share Image
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“We are emotional creatures; consequently, human nature is to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.” — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“Humanity as a whole, particularly in large amounts and in confined areas, overwhelms me.” — Karissa Laurel Copy Share Image
“Humans. We are intelligent. We are destructive. We are complex creatures.” — Sambath Meas Copy Share Image