Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value...

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each...

A necessidade de comer e beber é simplesmente o instinto de autoconservação!- Mas não acha que esse instinto de autopreservação por si só é importante? Ora, o instinto de autoconservação é a lei normal da...

Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people’s lives with others. The process for me became self-revelatory. It was a process of soul-making, something all...

In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they...

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of...

Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect....

There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.” Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts and impulses how can we deny the very things that make us human.”...

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the...

When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability to distinguish between cruelty and necessity.

What is your vision of ideal world?

May we unite in our diverse pursuits to create a peaceful world.

The human mind isn’t a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That...

The problem, kid,” Shorty said, “is there is no one on either side of the fence keeping measurements about what you do. God is an idea, and the devil is us.

I don’t know about you, but I believe that in our present time we are definitely shaking things up with human fate in this world.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

In God’s scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this...

How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?… We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However,...

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold...

… she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the ‘light woman.’People who enjoyed ‘picking-up’ things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit...

I like roles of people who can overcome things because there’s strength in that and an arc – and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end...

People need other people to feel things for them,” she said. “It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That’s because there isn’t any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Music links us humans, heart to heart…Across time and space, and life and death.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with...

Peter was struck by the scar’s essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph:...

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they’re a...

For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and hands objectively, as if they were...

Literature is integrated, and I’m not just talking about color or race. I’m talking about the power of literature to make us recognize – and again and again – the wholeness of the human experience.

Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I’ll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

In life things are only free after you’ve paid for them.

We all boil at different degrees

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another...

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you...

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they’ve been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each...

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the...

If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling...

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unknown suffering Of an empty heart and soul and thus their suffering is unknown. We cannot do everything; but...