At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Amid the green peace, amid the rightness of nature, the violence of a lie stands out. It is so utterly wrong, a… — Erazim V. Kohák Copy Share Image
“Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with… — Valzhyna Mort Copy Share Image
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“If you’re born a human oddity,” says the introductory chapter of Very Special People, “every day of your life, starting in infancy,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“Not only did I believe that humans were selfish and base, I also knew that plenty of them were actually bad –… — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In this it is similar to the problem of the solar system. By a complex, confusing, and almost contradictory mathematical process, by… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“The occupation deprives you of your humanity by depriving you of the ability to control time. A free human being controls his… — Ala Hlehel Copy Share Image
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Humans began to show their pathogenic potential toward the planet during the 1950s, ravenously devouring natural resources and discarding waste into the… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
“WE SHOULD ALL BE HUMANISTS. So I had this conversation with a friend and I am of the view that, we need… — Magnus Nwagu Amudi Copy Share Image
The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder—how do we respond to our fellow humans when they break down in front of us? Do we recognize… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
