Each person leaves a legacy — a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery...

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx’s doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I’m rightwing.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners try to convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be...

Only selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity.

No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either,...

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

If you can struggle to be a Muslim everyday.Don`t forget to struggle to be a human also.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (…) However bad life may seem (…) While there’s life, there is hope.

We’re addicted to this concept of civilization – we can’t imagine living outside of it because we’ve had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been...

It is this – that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That’s what I want to say. Don’t you forget that. Whatever happens, don’t you dare let yourself forget.

Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn’t.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of...

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.

Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn’t have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could...

Semua manusia selalu diciptakan dengan segenggam kebaikan, dan setitik ketidakbaikan.

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

It doesn’t matter if I think like a boy or a girl. It doesn’t matter anymore if I’m either or both or neither. All that shit seems so petty and immaterial now. There’s so little...

This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It’s the being mortal – how shall I say it? … insufficient.

you realize how good your network is when you try and use it for something

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anyone who can’t compete only with himself defeats the very first and the basic purpose of doing anything really excellent.

He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources in spite of living in abject penury situations.

People helping people, builds stronger communities

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate,...

Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed – men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only...

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And...

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

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...