“Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, all… — Homer Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
“Millions of people have been lifted from poverty and have gained access to modern education and health care. We have a universal… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We’re all members of one tribe or another—bonded by culture, family, religion, class, education, employment, team affiliation, or any number of other… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“I Am The Genre (Sonnet 2629) There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is… — Billy Meier Copy Share Image
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“The humans are dead (I'm glad they are dead) The humans are dead (I noticed, they're dead) We used poisonous gases (With… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“It is no exaggeration to say that fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. It is the engine driving… — Craig Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection,… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the concept of group madness was the creation of a nineteenth-century French doctor called Gustave Le Bon. His… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
“We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
“Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore this world? Could we not… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being'… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“In the face of certain death, men will show great courage, make great sacrifices, show a selfless determination to complete an impossible… — Andreas Christensen Copy Share Image
“A world conqueror had appeared in modern times. Alexander, Caesar, Attila, Genghis Khan, Napoleon—another such as these, appearing in the age of… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image