Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Let us ask ourselves; ”What kind of people do we think we are?”

In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion...

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same...

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the...

Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer...

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Language is a social energy, and our capacity for articulate speech is the key factor that makes us different from other species. We are not as fast as cheetahs – or even as horses. Nor...

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Pourquoi nous haïr? Nous sommes solidaires, emportés par la même planête, équipage d’un même navire. Et s’il est bon que des civilisations s’opposent pour favoriser des synthèses nouvelles, il est monstrueux qu’elles s’entre-dévorent.Puisqu’il suffit, pour...

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr’s sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately,...

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Every religion should be in favor of humankind.

Il me semble qu’ils confondent but et moyen ceux qui s’effraient par trop de nos progrès techniques. Quiconque lutte dans l’unique espoir de biens matériels, en effet, ne récolte rien qui vaille de vivre. Mais...

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ”What’s it for?”