"A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~Buddha
"A parcel of humanity won't make a civilization." ~Jeffrey Dela Cruz
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." -Greek Proverb
"A society that keeps cures a secret so they can continue to sell medication for huge profits is not a real society but a huge mental asylum." ~Alfredo Bowman
"Actually humanity is in a time of awakening now. There is a cosmic download of divine energy to the planet that will enable humanity to discern that what organized religions are teaching are enslavement and mental control of the people for power and financial gains of those propagating it." ~Shiela Tagaban Zangl, April 17, 2017. Comment: From Manila Times: Defend what is right, Villegas urges bishops
(Archbishop Socrates Villegas)
"All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." ~MArtin Luther King Jr.
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance." ~Edward Gibbon
"Armies are created to protect the system, not the people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war." ~Jacque Fresco
"Around the world, conflict is forcing record numbers of people from their homes, with over 65 million people now displaced. Children are recruited by armed groups and used to fight. Women are abused and humiliated. As humanitarian workers deliver aid and medical workers provide for those in need, they are all too often targeted or treated as threats." ~UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
"As an artist, I have to relate to humanity’s struggles. I never separate these situations from my art." ~Ai Weiwei
"Be wary of any belief or ideology... that promotes division between you and your fellow human beings." ~All Things Beautiful
“Compassion can be practice if one recognises the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, colour, and creed. Deep down, there is no difference.” ~Dalai Lama
"Compassion is underestimated. It takes both wisdom and strength to have it. To look beyond a person's own struggles and attempt to see the world through the eyes of another person's challenges is the highest form of humanity." ~Doe Zantamata
"Compassion is underestimated. It takes both wisdom and strength to have it. To look beyond a person's own struggles and attempt to see the world through the eyes of another person's challenges is the highest form of humanity." ~Doe Zantamata
"Critical thinking and empathy are the most important things that will ensure sustainable human existence. The current deterioration of both is the biggest problem humanity faces." ~Rick Whitaker
"Europe struggles between humanity and safety issues. It's a problem of a magnitude never seen before in the world." ~Robert Reissner
"Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work." ~Aldous Huxley
"Everyone and everything that humanity has ever loved, or cared for, has lived on our precious earth." ~A.D. Williams
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” ~Albert Einstein
"Europe struggles between humanity and safety issues. It's a problem of a magnitude never seen before in the world." ~Robert Reissner
"Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work." ~Aldous Huxley
"Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture." ~Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” ~Albert Einstein
"For a completely desperate group of international people to come together with the goal of saving the lives of 12 children and their coach that you've never met before that tells me that the spirit of humanity is still alive." ~Dr. Richard 'Harry' Harris, SA Anaesthetist and expert Cave Diver, Australian of the Year 2019
"Good wise leaders respect the law and basic values of their society." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at the Annual Children's Celebrations, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 27 September 2003, LivingTheLegacy
"He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again” ~Emma Thompson on Alan Rickman's death (Sense and Sensibility)
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James
"Human Beings grow best with encouragement and love." ~Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection." ~John Powell
"Human beings like to be associated with a hard-working, disciplined and successful person and, by carefully cultivating these qualities, you will win yourself many friends" ~Nelson Mandela from a letter to Makgatho Mandela, written on Robben Island, 28 July 1969, LivingTheLegacy
"Humanity has more in common than the differences that separate us." ~Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
"Humanity may have common ground, BUT needs and aspirations vary according to circumstances...... They have the same final objective to improve well-being and freedom of individuals, based on the inherent dignity and equality of all people." ~Barbara Tuchman, Historian
“Humanity must shift from living on the Earth to living with her.” ~Tiokasin Ghosthorse
"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." ~T. S. Eliot
"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." ~T. S. Eliot
“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.” ~Chief Seattle
"Humans need to be humane for the sake of humanity." ~A.D. Williams
"Humans of all ages benefit from feeling seen, valued and appreciated in big and small ways." ~Genevieve, The Way of the Peaceful Parent
"I'm ashamed that our journey in humanity is irrelevant." ~news from Israel video, March 4, 2018
"I'm convinced that there's a small group of evil people, rich and powerful beyond belief, who fan the flames of discord to precisely divide and conquer humanity to sustain their hold on the world. They are not human by any yardstick. They are inhuman." ~Rafael Alunan III, May 31, 2017
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
~Nelson Mandela from The Welcomed Consensus
"I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other. As one, we can help society." ~Megan Lynne Young, Miss World 2013, Miss World 2013 (28 September 2013)
"Humans need to be humane for the sake of humanity." ~A.D. Williams
"Humans of all ages benefit from feeling seen, valued and appreciated in big and small ways." ~Genevieve, The Way of the Peaceful Parent
"I'm ashamed that our journey in humanity is irrelevant." ~news from Israel video, March 4, 2018
"I'm convinced that there's a small group of evil people, rich and powerful beyond belief, who fan the flames of discord to precisely divide and conquer humanity to sustain their hold on the world. They are not human by any yardstick. They are inhuman." ~Rafael Alunan III, May 31, 2017
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
~Nelson Mandela from The Welcomed Consensus
"I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other. As one, we can help society." ~Megan Lynne Young, Miss World 2013, Miss World 2013 (28 September 2013)
“If speaking kindly to plants help them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans do.” ~Anon
"If we are able to look into another's eyes, talk to them, walk in their shoes for a moment. Understand their hopes and dreams. Their sadness. Their wins and losses. To make time to learn where they have been and where they are heading. If we can see that we all laugh, hope and cry and hurt the same. Perhaps we can know and understand each other a little better. Then with that understanding maybe we can treat each other, talk to each other and interact together with more understanding, empathy and wisdom. Coming together in a united circle of our shared humanness and humanity." ~Belinda Baker
"If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family." ~Desmond Tutu
"In this new age, humankind will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity." ~M. Mcluhan, The Global Village
"If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family." ~Desmond Tutu
"In this new age, humankind will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity." ~M. Mcluhan, The Global Village
"It is not that our society has been plunged into a revolutionary situation which is lamentable, it is the seeming loss of the people’s capacity to revolt which is the real tragedy." ~Butch Valdes
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.” ~James Connolly
"Justice requires confronting injustice. Humanity requires confronting inhumanity." ~Joffre Balce
"Kindness acknowledges our humanity without making any assumptions or judgments ~ it just accepts what is and extends the helping hand or simply smiles a greeting to brighten the day..." ~Caloy Bueno
"Let us not dwell too parochially on that past. Let it inspire us to make the intellectual and cultural contributions to the thinking and understanding of our common humanity that can make of the world a better place for all." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a Banquet celebrating Africa's 100 best books of the 20th Century, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"Let us stand together to make of our world a sustainable source for our future as humanity on this planet." ~Nelson Mandela upon receiving the Planet and Humanity Award, International Geographical Union, Durban, South Africa, August 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." ~Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.” ~James Connolly
"Justice requires confronting injustice. Humanity requires confronting inhumanity." ~Joffre Balce
"Kindness acknowledges our humanity without making any assumptions or judgments ~ it just accepts what is and extends the helping hand or simply smiles a greeting to brighten the day..." ~Caloy Bueno
"Let us not dwell too parochially on that past. Let it inspire us to make the intellectual and cultural contributions to the thinking and understanding of our common humanity that can make of the world a better place for all." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a Banquet celebrating Africa's 100 best books of the 20th Century, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"Let us stand together to make of our world a sustainable source for our future as humanity on this planet." ~Nelson Mandela upon receiving the Planet and Humanity Award, International Geographical Union, Durban, South Africa, August 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." ~Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
“Love and respect for all humanity begins when we love and respect all animals.” ~ A.D. Williams
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
"May this continent, the last explored by human kind, be the first one to be spared by human kind." ~Jacques-Yves Cousteau. 1973
"Mother Nature ... humanity's greatest teacher." ~Anon
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows." ~Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never underestimate the goodness a single act of kindness brings to humanity." ~ A.D. William
"Poverty makes people sub-human. Excess of wealth makes people inhuman." ~John Jimenez
"Solitary confinement 'doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our common humanity." ~Richard Branson
"… the children, the future of humanity." ~Chief Sitting Bull
"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files
"The heart is the lighthouse that guides all our senses and it is the essence of our humanity." ~Asrarabdulghani
"The lighthouse does great service to humanity; yet it is the slave of those who trim the lamps." ~Alice Wellington Rollins
"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be." ~William Hazlitt
"The naturalness and flow of music and its innate connectedness to nature forces the individual to surrender to her/his humble connectedness to all that there is and ever was and one's absoulute equality with all human beings and the unitive force of humanity. .." ~Katharina Katharina FB
"The picture speaks thousand words of human tragedy and collapsed humanitarian system. The philosophy of world order dictated by the powerful nations is based on changing regimes they don’t like and for that they don’t hesitate bombing people and destroying cities. Once cities become graveyard, they start re-building lives by offering peanuts. They destroyed everything in Iraq and Libya. Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria are still bleeding. The unfortunate thing is they talk about people’s dignity and humanitarian principles!" ~Наят Карим (on current affairs January 2020/The Voice of Reason/FB
"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files
"Never underestimate the goodness a single act of kindness brings to humanity." ~ A.D. William
"Poverty makes people sub-human. Excess of wealth makes people inhuman." ~John Jimenez
"Solitary confinement 'doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our common humanity." ~Richard Branson
"… the children, the future of humanity." ~Chief Sitting Bull
"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files
"The heart is the lighthouse that guides all our senses and it is the essence of our humanity." ~Asrarabdulghani
"The lighthouse does great service to humanity; yet it is the slave of those who trim the lamps." ~Alice Wellington Rollins
"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be." ~William Hazlitt
"The naturalness and flow of music and its innate connectedness to nature forces the individual to surrender to her/his humble connectedness to all that there is and ever was and one's absoulute equality with all human beings and the unitive force of humanity. .." ~Katharina Katharina FB
"The picture speaks thousand words of human tragedy and collapsed humanitarian system. The philosophy of world order dictated by the powerful nations is based on changing regimes they don’t like and for that they don’t hesitate bombing people and destroying cities. Once cities become graveyard, they start re-building lives by offering peanuts. They destroyed everything in Iraq and Libya. Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria are still bleeding. The unfortunate thing is they talk about people’s dignity and humanitarian principles!" ~Наят Карим (on current affairs January 2020/The Voice of Reason/FB
"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files
“The kinder we are, the kinder we become. The kinder humanity becomes.” ~A.D. Williams
"The strong must help the weak, and the rich must help the poor. Those with must help those without. This is what humanity is all about." ~ A.D. Williams
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men.” ~Annie Ali
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men.” ~Annie Ali
“The value of the brain is not only to think but to love humanity and create peace.” ~Hàn Quốc Vũ, published at ILA MAGAZINE, Founder Annette Nasser and ILA Team
"Those who teach the most about humanity aren't always humans." ~Donald L. Hicks
"We are committed to building bridges and helping to embrace all of humanity under one umbrella and move forward in strength and confidence to a better future." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a Diwali celebration, Durban, South Africa, 3 November 1991, LivingTheLegacy
"We must never lose our humanity—our ability to feel the pain of others even as we must never succumb to simplistic readings of what really is a highly complicated situation. " ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, 22 December 2016
"We need to place the eradication of poverty at the top of world priorities. We need to know with a fresh conviction that we all share a common humanity and that our diversity in the world is the strength for our future together." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at a Banquet celebrating Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2002, LivingTheLegacy
“What sets heroes aside from the rest of humanity is the willingness to assume a personal responsibility for public problems.” ~Earl Babbie from Inspiration Line
"When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as 'animals', yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity." ~A.D. Williams
"When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich." ~A.D. Williams
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." ~Hippocrates
"You don't have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude and acceptance. You will change the world by just being a warm, kind-hearted human being." ~Anita Krizzan
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~Gandhi
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment." ~Owen Feltham on Zeal
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MANKIND
"Mankind's cruelty and abuse to other people will not cease until mankind ceases cruelty and abuse to other animals." ~A.D. Williams
"Mankind did not create God. God created mankind." ~A.D. Williams
"Mankind is not the only animal that laughs, cries, thinks, feels, and loves. The sooner we acknowledge that animals are emotional beings, the sooner we will cease destroying animals and embrace them as our brothers and sisters." ~A.D. Williams
"Mankind must become harmless before becoming harmonious." ~A.D. Williams
"Mankind must cease harming the harmless." ~A.D. Williams
“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until … lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom.” ~Plato
"Some of the most wonderful poems ever written by mankind are hidden in books old and dusty and long forgotten." ~Anon
"The hardest animal to love is mankind." ~Anthony Douglas Williams
SOCIETY
"A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future." ~Nelson Mandela from a message announcing 1999 as the United Nations International Year of Older Persons, 17 December 1998, Internstiona Day of Older Persons, LTL
"At the molecular level, soap breaks things apart. At the level of society, it helps hold everything together." ~Palli Thordarson, UNSW Chemistry Professor on why soap molecules are so effective in killing viruses like COVID-19. (March 2020)
"Eccentricity has always abounded where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." ~John Stuart Mill
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." ~Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer
"Forgetting is the first step to completely removing something from our cultural collective memory. A society that remembers is a healthier society than one that keeps restarting from scratch.” ~Todd McGrain, an art professor at Cornell University
"I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid." ~Ice Cube, 2016 (Frontier S.1 Ep.3)
"I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of." ~Neil Strauss
"In society, there are good people and bad people. No one can make everyone good. To create order in society is not to make everyone good; it is to let good govern the society and control the bad in order to keep them from power so that they do not disrupt the order of the society." ~from Accor Hotels
"It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society." ~Anon
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." ~Johann Wolgang von Goethe
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny." ~Princess Diana (1Jul1961-31Aug1997)
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself." ~Nelson Mandela from an interview with John Battersby, Johannesburg, South Africa, published in the Christian Science Monitor on 10 February 2000 LTL
"Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society." ~Lawrence Kohlberg
"Society has gotten to the point where Everybody has a Right, but Nobody has a Responsibility." ~David Avocado Wolfe
"Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognise that the reason they feel like they're mentally ill is that they're living in a system that's not designed to suit the human spirit." ~Jim Carrey
"Society should not shape individual human consciousness. Human consciousness should shape society." ~Sadhguru
"The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.” ~Marianne E.Neifert
"The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.” ~Marianne E.Neifert
"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice." ~Sigmund Freud
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." ~Albert Einstein
"The more fun you have, the greater your value to yourself and to your society. The more fun you share with others, the more fun you have." ~Bernie De Koven
"The real change of our society begins in our homes, let us teach our sons and daughters the real sense of fellowship!" ~Anon
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." ~Albert Einstein
"The more fun you have, the greater your value to yourself and to your society. The more fun you share with others, the more fun you have." ~Bernie De Koven
"The real change of our society begins in our homes, let us teach our sons and daughters the real sense of fellowship!" ~Anon
“The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.” ~Clay Shirky
"The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children." ~Nelson Mandela during the launch of the Blue Train, Worcester Station, Worcester, South Africa, 27 September 1997
"We are now seeing 'people who want to destroy the very fabric of our society' and if the populace is going to bow down before them, then 'we are finished'." ~Bronwyn Bishop, Former Speaker of the House, FB/Sky News Australia, June 12, 2020
"We say that time is money. We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems. That we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth. In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over some seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will be killed." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You can be a better hero when you live, prosper, and contribute to our society." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth
OTHERS
"A parcel of humanity won't make a civilization." ~Jeffrey Dela Cruz
"Abortion is the gravest human rights abuse of our time." ~Lila Rose
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez
"Animals don't frighten me. Mankind does." ~A.D. Williams
"Be at peace in your spiritual being, and you will be at peace as a human being." ~A.D. Williams
"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” ~Haruki Murakami
"Children are the only human beings left in this world with clear conscience and common sense. Truth is embedded in their soul and etched on their face." ~Leah C. Dancel, April 7, 2018
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~John Ruskin
"Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate." ~Harry Browne
"Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being." ~Bryant McGill
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." ~Emily P. Bissell
"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn, and not often, on their own, the hard way." ~Heinlein
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I would love if we had a world icon as an option, so we could stand in solidarity. Not to a specific country, religion, race or sexuality-- But to humanity as one." ~David Vox
"If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving." ~Robert Frost
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being." ~John Joseph Powell
“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” ~Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
"The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children." ~Nelson Mandela during the launch of the Blue Train, Worcester Station, Worcester, South Africa, 27 September 1997
"We are now seeing 'people who want to destroy the very fabric of our society' and if the populace is going to bow down before them, then 'we are finished'." ~Bronwyn Bishop, Former Speaker of the House, FB/Sky News Australia, June 12, 2020
"We say that time is money. We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems. That we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth. In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over some seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will be killed." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You can be a better hero when you live, prosper, and contribute to our society." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth
OTHERS
"A parcel of humanity won't make a civilization." ~Jeffrey Dela Cruz
"Abortion is the gravest human rights abuse of our time." ~Lila Rose
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez
"Animals don't frighten me. Mankind does." ~A.D. Williams
"Be at peace in your spiritual being, and you will be at peace as a human being." ~A.D. Williams
"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” ~Haruki Murakami
"Children are the only human beings left in this world with clear conscience and common sense. Truth is embedded in their soul and etched on their face." ~Leah C. Dancel, April 7, 2018
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~John Ruskin
"Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate." ~Harry Browne
"Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being." ~Bryant McGill
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." ~Emily P. Bissell
"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn, and not often, on their own, the hard way." ~Heinlein
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I would love if we had a world icon as an option, so we could stand in solidarity. Not to a specific country, religion, race or sexuality-- But to humanity as one." ~David Vox
"If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving." ~Robert Frost
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being." ~John Joseph Powell
“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” ~Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
"Love is like water, it needs to flow outside of the self. But people possess the gift of transference, of empathy and sublimating personal love to love for the poor and downtrodden. When they sublimate, transcend personal need for affection and move to higher levels of personal love for humanity, then there will never be grief. And love becomes noble and great." ~Claro Ganac
"Many people have been through hell in their lives and yet still kind and loving towards other human beings." ~Manuel Valdez
"Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing - not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity." ~Audrey Hepburn
"One of the most powerful force that shapes us as human beings is the desire to leave a legacy. What legacy would you leave behind?" ~Hannibal Lecter
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." ~angels rescue cats
"The basic human rights for all our citizens have to be protected and guaranteed, to ensure the genuine liberty of every individual" ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a Business Leadership meeting, World Trade Center, New York City, USA, 21 June 1990, LivingTheLegacy
"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." ~J. Paul Getty
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation." ~Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways, the highest adventure on earth." ~Norman Cousins
"The hardest animal to love is mankind." ~ A.D. Williams
"The history of mankind tells us that problems are not to be feared. What should concern us is refusing to face up to the problems and not knowing what to do about them." ~Xi Jinping, president of the People's Republic of China
"The leaders of mankind are those who lift their feet from the dusty road and lift their eyes to the illumined future." ~Woodrow Wilson
"The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways, the highest adventure on earth." ~Norman Cousins
"The hardest animal to love is mankind." ~ A.D. Williams
"The history of mankind tells us that problems are not to be feared. What should concern us is refusing to face up to the problems and not knowing what to do about them." ~Xi Jinping, president of the People's Republic of China
"The leaders of mankind are those who lift their feet from the dusty road and lift their eyes to the illumined future." ~Woodrow Wilson
"The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence." ~Thomas Berry
"The progress of civilization should be an increase in self-employment, leisure and participation and not in debt, insecurity and marginalisation." ~Joffre Balce
"The survival of mankind is predicated on our being social animals. But often we are more animal than social." ~Caloy Bueno
"They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.." ~Galileo Galilei
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
~Bertrand Russell
"Time defeats humans but the pyramid defeats time." ~Explore Sacred Egypt
"To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the book that tells of her past." ~Dr. Jose P. Rizal
"To have another language is to possess a second soul." ~Charlemagne
"We accord persons dignity by assuming that they are good, that they share the human qualities we ascribe to ourselves." ~Nelson Mandela
"When two sides rally around a common goal, the human spirit takes over and miracles happen." ~Rafael Alunan III, 26 July 2017
“When you are in love with humanity, you are satisfied with yourself.” ~ Luigi Pirandello
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed!" ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957
"You are a beautiful flower in the garden of humanity." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are not here by accident. You are the awakening that breathes the magic of love and light into a troubled world. While you will be tested and checked on your path, you will prove to be the survivor you have always been. Rise, release the past and be the hope of humanity that you truly are … You are the highest vibration." ~Love and Passion Awaken
"You don’t have to hide, pretend, or feel bad about not always being the strong one. You’re not weak, you’re human, and you never have to apologize for that." ~Raphaela Browne
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"You are a beautiful flower in the garden of humanity." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are not here by accident. You are the awakening that breathes the magic of love and light into a troubled world. While you will be tested and checked on your path, you will prove to be the survivor you have always been. Rise, release the past and be the hope of humanity that you truly are … You are the highest vibration." ~Love and Passion Awaken
"You don’t have to hide, pretend, or feel bad about not always being the strong one. You’re not weak, you’re human, and you never have to apologize for that." ~Raphaela Browne
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"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." ~Chief Seattle
"I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race." ~Don Marquis
"Inhumanity, greed, and corruption remained the blueprint of human power." ~Leah C. Dancel
"Mankind's lessons are written in the ruins of his civilization.” ~Anthony T. Hincks
“Mankind was appointed the guardian of earth. I wish we would act like guardians.” ~A.D. Williams
"Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George." ~Albert Einstein
"Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George." ~Albert Einstein
"My dream is that someday we can have a community life where we push and help each other to win." ~Ivan Fernandez
"The best thing any human being can do is influence another one." ~FREDDIE FIGGERS
"The health of our civilisation..... and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries." ~Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"The health of our civilisation..... and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries." ~Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." ~Masanobu Fukuoka
“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” ~Terry Tempest Williams
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