It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.

The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

I came up with the term ‘mindfreak’ because I didn’t like the word ‘magician.’ I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be...

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he...

One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may...

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking–humanity itself?

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering...

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves – how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been...

Man is a vile creature!

The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of “CHANGE” but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

E se a minha vida não fôr mais do que um processo de materialização, através do qual eu dou forma a imagens latentes que vivem adormecidas em mim?

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural...

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences...

So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is none, or any wisdom except the...

I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as...

Be kind to all the people you meet on your journey.

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light....

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.

Humanity cannot maintain value in their pitiful existence without blind obedience.

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible...

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

I don’t think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we’re sitting here? Solving...

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the...

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we’re ashamed of our bodies as to where it’s a law to wear fabrics,...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there’s something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return,...

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk – lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic,...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating...

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re – we’re feeling machines that happen to think.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it —...

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ’emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or...