You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

I will withdraw from both clubs and I’ll — I’ll pull up every weed off every Yankee’s grave I can find and I’ll plant flowers, too — and — I just dare anyone to stop...

If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.

Telegraph RoadA long time ago came a man on a trackWalking thirty miles with a pack on his backAnd he put down his load where he thought it was the bestMade a home in the...

Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being

I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have...

Call the world, if you please, “the Vale of Soul Making”. Then you will find out the use of the world….There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions — but they are...

Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with...

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

You do not require a license to love someone; you don’t need to pass any complicated tests. Love does not have age limitations, rules, or restrictions. Love is our birthright—it is the one thing that...

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

You make them sound human.””Aren’t they? A lot of monsters are human.”She couldn’t argue with that.

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those...

Wild nature always gives a very simple message to humanity: Do not disturb me!

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don’t even know it.

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the means for luxury and leisure, culture has followed as naturally as vegetation grows...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Tak jak przed telewizorem umiera wiara w drugiego człowieka, tak w podróży ta wiara powraca. Podróżowanie zwraca nam życie. Zabiera nas do istoty rzeczy, zabiera nas w przeszłość, do czasów, gdy to nie współzawodnictwo rządziło...

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world...

Religion is the bane of humanity as Christianity is its salvation.

When we begin to realize, that any of our personal success, is all of our successes, then we are truly ready as a species, for the next level. For if I gain, and you do...

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

It’s not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it’s about what I can DO for our future and humanity.

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we...

Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in...

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

proved” by conformity. They teach others that having a voice is a sign of courage, and they will not stay silent to make people feel comfortable. They are fearless and will do whatever it takes...

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Down there – he said – are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of...

Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into the dim corners of the room, to dilate your eyes and...

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to...

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

You can never be fully human unless you’ve discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don’t close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country....

The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already… begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to...

I’m reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia of a specific object, living being, or an event, but a fear of...

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity’s great aspirations.

Paper is more patient than man.

A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of ‘WE’ which sounds as ‘V’ that stands for ‘VICTORY’, and so it reflects the power of a...

It’s so easy to understand even an unknown person’s real nature through the things that he likes, but it’s possible only to a few people who are actually caring to others for being true to...