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More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.
— John Christopher
Being human trespass the conditionings of the laws of the worlds that have been created by the conditioned society — these reflective of a conditioned mind reflect the facets of the self, to discipline and educate indirectly; restrict evolution for pardon, and affliction
— AainaA-Ridtz, The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity
Human looks sure on face, while the earth lost in space.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no “they” until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us.
— James Rozoff
Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a real part of the world.
— Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
We don't even know we are brothers and sisters.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of pleasure tearing one another to pieces from the emulation of spending money, and the men of business from envy in getting it.
— Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavour to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.
— Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to be bugged by any more white jokers who still can't figure out whether I'm human or not. If they don't know, baby, sad on them, and I hope they drop dead slowly, in great pain.
— James Baldwin, Another Country
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
— Michel Foucault
No matter the languages we speak or the colour of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of the Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths in the forests of North and South America, and who laboured to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
— Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Frailty, thy name is human!
— Marty Rubin
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
— Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alongside others who care, and to make a difference.
— Nilofer Merchant, The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
The mark of humanity is how it treats the world and those who share it with us...
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impulse alone? He did not know. Even if he were to sort through his video memories and count them up one by one, he still didn't think he would have the right answer. But after today's mission, human faces would always look different to him. They would remind him of what it felt like to suffer, and to be relieved of suffering.
— Annalee Newitz, Autonomous
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
An entire planet pretending to be uncomfortable with the humanitarian crisis while engrossed in distractions on their mobile screens. Humanity ignoring their inevitable existential crisis.
— Gayendra Abeywardane, Crocodile Chamber
Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.
— Gayendra Abeywardane, Crocodile Chamber
Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Without strength, can we work to create wealth?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren't feminist 'sexist' – and then everyone else is just human.
— Maisie Williams
Life is all we have, the grace of service to mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Right. So what don't get is why everyone is mad at me, instead of realising that I am the one who has been wronged here. Not a single person has come up to me and said,"I'm really sorry this happened to you." Not one person.
— Julie Buxbaum
Without the earth, where can humankind live?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.
— Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.
— Chris Cleave, Little Bee
We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being.
— Auliq-Ice
To really be of help to others we need to be guided by compassion.
— Auliq-Ice
I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.
— Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Whether is is a good or bad deal depends, for money does not always keep its value, unlike mankind, whose value is always the same, everything and nothing.
— José Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda
Society is driven by the fierce winds of subjective opinion, whereby the balance is always tested, always in flux. Know this, your opinion is part of a continuum of possibilities that lives in the swirling landscape of humanity and if the world is not what you think it should be, probably, you are standing in the wrong place.
— R.A.Delmonico
Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.
— Richard Smyth, Wild Ink
The moment we accept each other as Human beings, we shall find harmony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without wheels. If you don't have these three things, you're either a slave or an animal. Any idea about being social or human has been cleverly associated with these two things, in order to make believe that being a social animal is the ideal to aspire for, especially if such animal is enslaved by a certain amount of ideals promoted by the system that gives him life and cuts it off as soon as he shows himself undeserving.
— Robin Sacredfire
In the face of a disaster, do you believe strongly enough in humanity to expend your life to save the lives of others you do not even know?
— Joseph Whitson, As Glaciers Move: Selected Poems and Prose Presenting a Progression of Perceptions
However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't be harmed - that I pulled away.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. I do not think I am being extreme. When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy of the planet. You force what is meant to be open, trusting, nurturing, creative, and alive to be bent, infertile, and broken.
— Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind.
— John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent
Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.
— Corey Taylor
However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?
— Tracy Sillato, My Maasai Experience: Reflections
A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—​and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
If we wish for peace, we must pray for one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
— Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.
— Marty Rubin
the cord of two is better than one.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be a peacemaker, seek peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really matter if anybody is free of any negative feeling about anything? No matter how much you love somebody, you know, there's some part of him you don't like.
— Truman Capote
Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.
— Germany Kent
Anybody that does not value time does not value life.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness
—  the lasting leap from fear to love in the human mind will be its masterpiece.
Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
— Marty Rubin
Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory is only for the physical bodies of animals; its effect upon humanity is sinister and degrading. We see the principle at work all about us in criminal exploitation and profiteering. As a matter of fact, the ages-long application of this animal principle to human affairs has degraded the whole human morale in an inconceivably far-reaching way. Personal greed and selfishness are brazenly owned as principles of conduct. We shrug our shoulders in acquiescence and proclaim greed and selfishness to be the very core of human nature, take it all for granted, and let it pass at that. We have gone so far in our degradation that the prophet of capitalistic principles, Adam Smith, in his famous Wealth of Nations, arrives at the laws of wealth, not from the phenomena of wealth nor from statistical statements, but from the phenomena of selfishness-a fact which shows how far-reaching in its dire influence upon all humanity is the theory that human beings are "animals." Of course the effect is very disastrous. The preceding chapters have shown that the theory is false; it is false, not only because of its unhappy effects, but it belies the characteristic nature of man. Human nature, this time-binding power, not only has the peculiar capacity for perpetual progress, but it has, over and above all animal propensities, certain qualities constituting it a distinctive dimension or type of life. Not only our whole collective life proves a love for higher ideals, but even our dead give us the rich heritage, material and spiritual, of all their toils. There is nothing mystical about it; to call SUCH a class a naturally selfish class is not only nonsensical but monstrous.
— Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of everything and nothing at all.' 'Yes, she answered, her coy smile spreading joy across her lovely face. It is that simple.
— Karen Essex, Pharaoh
You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.
— Nora Roberts, The Obsession
Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humankind.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humans. We are intelligent. We are destructive. We are complex creatures.
— Sambath Meas, The Governor's Daughter
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
— Germany Kent
the crucial factor in ourconquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.
— Rhian J. Martin
It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.
— Gordon R. Dickson, Soldier, Ask Not
There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What matters is the living have breath!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are one people until you decide we are one person in the churning sea of humanity.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years. We went from powered flight to putting a man on the moon in sixty years. We’ve always progressed in leaps and bounds. It is our ability, no, our duty, to do what is efficient, and to do what is best, to evolve not just our vehicles and our cities and our homes, but also the social structures that hold us back
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
Wherever, I am welcome, there is my home.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can only love one another deeply from the heart, for there is home of sacredness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb-in their eyes!
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence.  -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)
— Melissa Rose Lawrence, The Autumnal Winds
Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God.
— Marty Rubin
I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent
— Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
— Nelson Mandela
Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?'-Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam
— Mark Russell
Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring Him so that others can see Him through you.
— Germany Kent
Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond the understanding and control of a helpless humanity.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia
— Neda Aria
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and it will be a society of heartless robots. On the other hand, turn the reasoning network off, and it will be a society of dumb sentimental apes.
— Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
I dislike humans in general, but I couldn't not do anything.
— Cara Dee, Home
The technological revolution seems to have no higher purpose than to render humanity obsolete.
— Marty Rubin
To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.
— Petek Kabakci
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and you may need it.
— Germany Kent
There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation. Adam stood smiling at the two of them, a small figure perfectly poised exactly between Heaven and Hell. Crowley grabbed Aziraphale's arm. "You know what happened?" he hissed excitedly. "He was left alone! He grew up human! He's not Evil Incarnate or Good Incarnate, he's just...a human incarnate-
— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.
— Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer
The beautiful world!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Good News of the gospel of salvation must be declared to all nations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Heaven lies in the heart of humankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let's pray for grace to live heavenly on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.
— Gift Gugu Mona
To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to stop the beating of another's.
— Jessica Khoury
We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.
— Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer
The world is made up of words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be manmade, too. What has been keeping us back, keeping us messy? The animal impediment, within and without. Eliminating these impediments, we will surely be catching up with our machines, resembling them more and more impeccably.
— Amy Leach, Things That Are
Every god creature has a “Life Cycle” and we all worth it as our right but my question is that who is more innocent, Human Being or Animal Being?
— G.K. Dutta
Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Every child is born as a free human being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.
— Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
Praying purifies the human heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The nightmare they banished – a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not – could not – understand it's true essence: the mark of a divinity, broken and scattered among them. Much like the souls of men.
— Grant Smuts, Where The Gods Lie Dreaming
YOU FEEL MOST ALIVE WHEN YOU HELP SOMEONE WITH FULL DEVOTION.
— Seema Brain Openers
Humanity is not that difficult to understand
—  it is inhumanity that I cannot decipher.
Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill his mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is enough blessings for everyone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, can we live in heaven?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sole duty of a man is to love his Maker with all his soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
i am not an angel ,and i don't want to be an angel.I Born as a Human and and my Biggest Task to keep my self Just a Human.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Everyone person Born as human , But Not everyone die as Human
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Every person Born as human , But Not everyone die as Human
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari
We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu
May the grace of God be the goodwill to all mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
May all humankind find grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither harm nor hate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace is always possible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Human for love and things for use But now days people use humans and love things
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Peace for thyself is the peace for thy neighbour which begins with a prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We need each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest grace shall be harmony in human relations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the idea of humanity. Because that’s what it is, an idea. True humanity would never behave as we have behaved.
— Melissa West
We don't even know we are brothers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an absolute tenet. Justice must be pliable in order to meet the needs of more than one person or one group. Justice goes against separation; it is a form of human superglue. Justice is what binds us as people. No human is capable of measuring out or dispensing unqualified justice. Justice naturally seeks conciliation and demands compromise.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Peace starts with a prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love your neighbour as you will love yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace begins with understanding.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We can lose money, But the loss of human life is loss forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God created human beings in his own likeness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing can touch the human heart like kindness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man belongs to his Maker.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is the master of his choices,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love with a kind heart is what we can give to each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every kind deed is an act of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever hate, harm himself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is the deeds of life; to serve, to sacrifice , to share!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can love completely without complete understanding.
— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.
— Abhijit Naskar
Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too -- in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any chances we may impose of field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I don well -- or ill?
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Isn’t it an irony of the sorts that most evolved people think that they are dispensable, lesser humans think that they are indispensable, and the devolved ones think that rest are dispensable.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
— Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.
— Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
In afternoon if you close eyes it's doesn't mean there is dark outside and if you avoid or do not want see your wrong deeds and wrong character it's doesn't mean all Good in you
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck.
— Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.
— Janelle Gray, Echoes of the Struggle
Humanity is when the society is able to care, protect and value one another.
— Gift Gugu Mona
What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, each soul is responsible for the world.
— Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.
— Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it.
— John Fowles, The Tree
Equality... is when you don't feel the existence of word
— Talees Rizvi
The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.
— Mitch Landrieu
If you pray for thy neighbour, sow a seed of love in thy heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The world is built with words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any peace without a prayer?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost – but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Homosexuals are not made, they are born.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people beyond the man-made primitive citadels of gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary labels, not the animals. This way, animals are more civilized than humans.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist – a theoretical pest from the stone-age, who somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect. Such a creature with no modern mental faculty whatsoever, knows nothing beyond the words of a book, written hundreds or thousands of years ago, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking in the society. It does not only believe every single word of a book to be literally true, but puts all its efforts to convince others to believe the same. This way, it would be an understatement to say, such is a worthless creature. In reality, such a creature can cause a catastrophic contagion in a society, especially if that society is already going through socio-political turmoil.
— Abhijit Naskar
Every single voice—no matter how soft the peep—longs to be heard.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
— Stewart Stafford, The Vorbing
Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Impossible? Utopic?  Sure!  But for how long? Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ? A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian
Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings
— Danny Dover, The Minimalist Mindset
The role of United Nations is not policing but awakening the heart center of the humanity.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a time when it was easy to doubt such humanity still existed. If the terrorists had hoped their attacks would reveal the weaknesses in western society, the events in Gander proved its strength.
— Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Our Master puts the desire to procreate in us to be sure that we are fruitful and multiply. He knows how important animals are to the planet because most animals He allows to reproduce in great number. He put every one of us on the ark for a reason. Do you think it’s a mistake that dogs and cats have litters of 8, 9, 10 or more and people typically only have one or maybe two? It’s no mistake. It’s because God intends that there is more than enough four-legged love to go around.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
For all I see, humanity is lost. It's devastatingly sad.
— Laure Lacornette
Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.
— Rehan Waris
Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of humanism – the path where every pedestrian is simply a human, not a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Mexican, American, Canadian, British, Australian, Russian, Asian, African, European or anything else.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.
— Abhijit Naskar
You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any earlier.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess
— Munia Khan
People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men — to their neighbour, as they are forever saying with all the baseness of false sentiment — when in fact it is purely and simply a question of finding their way to themselves. Let each first find his way to himself! And since hardly anyone has yet found his way to himself, it is inconceivable that any of these unfortunate millions has ever found his way to another human being — or to his neighbour, as they say, dripping with self-deception.
— Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind
— Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent
Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders this rudimentary question. “Never have the bush clover blooming on the beach, nor the little crabs who skitter o’er the sand, nor the wild geese resting their wings in yonder cove found fault with me. Would that human beings too were thus! Each individual has his own way of living. Can we not learn to respect one another’s chosen way? One makes every effort to live in a dignified and proper manner, without harming anyone else, yet people will carp and cavil and try to tear one down. It’s most vexing.
— Osamu Dazai, Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
— Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
All monotheisms should return to their respective times with our thanks for everything.This is no longer their time.If they stay, they will suffer and make us suffer.If they really love humanity, they should step aside and let humanity outgrow them.This is the time when humanity needs to learn about thinking and acting collectively for his collective, or else no monotheism-presented God can ever save him.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
You'll never understand someone if you can't stop assuming you already know everything about them.
— Melissa Abigail, Judge by the Cover
Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.So, let us drink a cup of tea.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
There are no facts, only interpretations”“Truth is merely the final illusion” – Nietzsche (2003)Let this not stop us from being faithful to humanity andLoyal to our own duty to be spiritually human. Living within the ethic of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule, Will help us all achieve this goal.
— Nietzche Friedrich
Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media.
— Germany Kent
The darkness does not flow from my being to them, but out of their hearts and into my skin. I don't inspire your evil. I never did. You offer it to me, from the gravest crime to the smallest indifference.
— Phil Hester, The Darkness: Accursed, Volume 7
We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.
— Satsuki Shibuya
Truth is only true if it is true for all.
— VD.
Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
— K.R. Royal
Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers.
— Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth
We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our humanity.
— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
You must become aware of the need to serve humanity with your gift
— Sunday Adelaja
Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
She was adamant that any organization that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.
— Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
Monsters were real. They wore human flesh and looked out from behind the eyes of seemingly benign people. You passed them on the street every day, never knowing they'd marked you as prey until it was too late.
— Liana LeFey, Once a Courtesan
You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.
— Ron Marz, Witchblade, Volume 8
Humankind’s greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final configuration of our ultimate essence. Our mental temperament is pliable. We make conscious and subconscious choices that govern who we become.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Is what I do important? Does it matter? I don't really do much other than working, and caring for my family and friends.God: If anything matters, than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes. Every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes. With every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished, and nothing will ever be the same again.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
— Keith Buckley
These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings than I would to the pratfalls of a fellow human. I don’t imagine I would laugh at the spectacle of a toaster falling out of an SUV, or a semiautomatic rifle pitching over sideways from an upright position, but there is something about these machines, their human form, with which it is possible to identify sufficiently to make their falling deeply, horribly funny.
— Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice
— Sunday Adelaja
Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. “Love thy neighbor” - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching – as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says “God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers” – now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Enemies aren't always garnered through action... Sometimes they appear for no other reason than to shame the goodwill of loving & kind people.
— Robert Vanleeuwen, Among Wolves'