Humans Quote by Thomas Merton

“Many of our most cherished plans for the glory of God are only inordinate passion in disguise. And the proof of this is found…

— Thomas Merton

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire…

— Thomas Merton

“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the best case, faith leaves otherwise well-intentioned people incapable of thinking rationally about many of their deepest concerns; at worst, it is a…

— Sam Harris

The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been…

— Lloyd deMause

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of…

— Eckhart Tolle

“During the second half of the twentieth century this Law of the Jungle has finally been broken, if not rescinded. In most areas wars…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive”

— Cesareo Bandera

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Whereas in ancient agricultural societies human violence caused about 15 per cent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only 5 per…

— Yuval Noah Harari