The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the...

Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Don’t be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power–it’s because I know I live in an empty society.

After all, Paul Robeson said, ‘Artists are the radical voice of civilization.’ Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way...

To exist is to stand out, away from the background,” The Preacher said. “You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

… the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity.

God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God’s Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn’t give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

So long as you believe yourself to be ‘only human’ you have accepted life in a prison cell whose door remains locked only by your own mind.By saying, ‘well, I’m only human’, you have blindly...

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is “What do you like?” Tell me what...

Children are lovable and adorable.

We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s...

The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.

There is one advantage to realizing that you’re never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people...

Una combinación de inversiones en sintonía con las necesidades y condiciones locales pueden permitir que las economías africanas escapen de la trampa de la pobreza

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart — callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. — From the short story...

I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn’t support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very...

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are...

What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the...

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

Someday find my son…tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.”–A Letter to Jesse Owens

Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of...

That’s how you avoid becoming a moth,” he says. “Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

I am a Dalit in Khairlanji. A Pandit in the Kashmir valley. A Sikh in 1984. I am from the North East of India when I am in Munirka. I am a Muslim in Gujarat;...

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we’re just so small.

I see that I’ve become a really bad correspondent. It’s not that I don’t think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you...

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is...

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

The people who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.

Faced with an ecological crisis whose roots lie in this disengagement, in the separation of human agency and social responsibility from the sphere of our direct involvement with the non-human environment, it surely behoves us...

did” something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On...

If humanity as a whole was to embrace and practice love; mankind would make history of transforming a bleak world overnight, for out of love we do the right things that are not meant to...

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on...

I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I...

It is not, I think, a question of when and how the white people will “free” the black and the red people. It is a condescension to believe that we have the power to do...