c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
The heart upon which, the sense of humanity and the passion has died, that heart is the emptiness of a conception of love, mercy, and fairness of the principles. Indeed, such people are the terrorists, whether in uniform or not, in power or not, who work, as the army of the evil. The world is under that force.
— Ehsan Sehgal
...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...
— Mark Doty, Firebird
In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.
— Jana Elston
History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
Balance eases the heart.
— Nathan Ballingrud, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.
— Daniel Alexander Brackins, Private Property, Law, and the State
Considering things in the ecumenical measure, we are the microbes of the Universe.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.
— V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?
— Liz Moore, The Unseen World
How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.
— Emily Ruskovich, Idaho
We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of re-combining nature's products into hideous new forms.
— Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The magic that confounds them is humanity. The naturally occurring, slow acting, unpredictably potent product of conscious minds connecting. These madmen want to synthesise love. They want to manufacture it, weaponise it, and use it to control people. It’s such a ludicrous scheme it would be funny if they weren’t trampling the world in pursuit of it.
— Isaac Marion, The Burning World
Love is the cloud that keeps raining down.
— Auliq Ice, World in Hands
God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created
— Sunday Adelaja
Our common humanity can bridge any prior expanse of disagreement between us.
— Carmine Savastano
Serving humanity is fulfilling the description of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.
— Tracy Rees, Amy Snow
If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
— Desmond Tutu
Human beings connect with a holy hug.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we hug, we have tender heart towards each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Refugees are going to continue to come, and the only question is what we are going to do to help them.
— Davan Yahya Khalil
We’ve now become the spectators of our own mutation. We may not die human anymore. But what makes us human?
— Natasha Tsakos
Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.
— H.G. Wells
Not of the priest, and not of the devils, nor of the pits of fire. She had seen their devils. She saw them every day. Some were wicked, and some were kind, and some were mischievous. All were as human in their way as the folk they guarded. No, Vasya was frightened of her own people. They did not joke on the way to church anymore.
— Katherine Arden
There is never a bad time for a pun. There’s also never really a good time for a pun. You might as well just stay braced for a pun at all times, and ride them when they come with as much grace as you can manage.The fact that you can replace ‘pun’ with ‘disaster’ in the last three rules says a lot about the human race.
— Terry Pratchett
Don’t fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that there’s something worth looking forward to in the end.
— Felix Alexander, The Last Valentine
When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
— Robert H. Lieberman, The Last Boy
Death is the final destiny of the human race.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.
— Leland Gregory, Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
When I was a child, I never imagined one day would come when humanity would fall.
— Davan Yahya Khalil
Since the beginning of the human tribe around 10,000 years ago, tell me, has there been a single day in our collective human history where a man did not kill another man?The anticipated answer saddens and empties my heart of any promise.
— Adam Kovacevic
A Supervisor in need of supervision is a useless Supervisor
— Kenneth Mahuka
People do terrible things. People do beautiful things. It's against the black backdrop of evil that the shining light of good shows the brightest. We can't just focus on the darkness of the night, or we'll miss out on the stars.
— Wendy Mills, All We Have Left
Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.
— DaShanne Stokes
We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.
— Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
I see a sign for a bathroom and rush toward it. It feels stupid to be thinking about something as ordinary as going to the bathroom right now, but people still have to pee, still have to cry, still have to be human, no matter what else is happening.
— Wendy Mills, All We Have Left
Humanity smacks me the taste of human psyche and prejudice, being part of human nature. Humans believe that they have a right to decide on behalf of all creatures and make laws for them. Love is more preferred word to replace humanity, it incorporates feelings of all creatures in comparison to humanity, which is only humane.
— Tarif Naaz
Man is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at Heart betweenbreast and belly, that physical placewhere the Self urges — delicate sensation
— Allen Ginsberg, Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems
Do not be an average person, average is not normal, average is lazy. set goals, dream more, break the rules and become a better person you want be. BE HUMBLE AND KIND
— Futty-fuze
As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic.
— Steven Magee
Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accountants, pads for shopping lists, agendas for planning week. Everything in here important to life, and that make me happy, give honour to my life.'The man delivered his little speech with such solemnity, such a grave sense of purpose and commitment, I confess that I felt moved. What kind of stationery store owner was this, I wondered, who expounded to his customers on the metaphysics of paper, who saw himself as serving an essential role in the myriad affairs of humanity? There was something comical about it, I suppose, but as I listened to him talk, it didn't occur to me to laugh.
— Paul Auster
Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion which Our Lord had made out of cooked fish and perhaps a handful of rotten potatoes and a drop of oatmeal gruel.
— Halldór Laxness, Salka Valka
They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Peace is not a Natural Phenomenon, it is violence that is Natural. Peace needs to be imposed, Violence comes on its own. That is the reason why despite of so many efforts, Humanity is still deprived of permanent Peace.
— Tarif Naaz
Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.
— Kamand Kojouri
It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.
— Penelope Douglas, Corrupt
All the little devils are proud of their hell
— Wake in Fright
The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Human are best protector or worst destroyer of nature and humanity itself
—  it is pertinent that there is an optimum level of human on Earth so as to sustain nature and humanity.
Sometimes you feel like you are on top of the world, and at other times it feels like the world is on top of you.
— GE Paulus
Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.
— Jellis Vaes
But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.
— Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Problems, struggles, difficulties, whatever you want to call them, are normal. In fact, each and every person you see walking on the street, sitting in the metro, working out at the gym, wherever, is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Problems are the most human thing about being a human, and are one of the few things that each and every one of us has in common.
— Jellis Vaes
Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.
— Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg
I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.
— Han Kang, Human Acts
I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race. And that includes you, professor, listening to this testimony. As it includes myself.
— Han Kang, Human Acts
When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'.
— Abhijit Naskar
As long as we don’t buckle under the weight of the pain and its longevity, when the pain does subside a bit, we find ourselves more inclined to feel compassion for other people going through their own rough spots - CHALLENGES INSPIRE COMPASSION.
— Auliq-Ice
A journey of forgiveness is always a right choice.
— Auliq-Ice
Where there is forgiveness, there is always love.
— Auliq-Ice
Forgiveness is always hard, but we must always try to leave room for reasonable attempts at reconciliation to occur.
— Auliq-Ice
Forgiveness is always worthy because it's worth.
— Auliq-Ice
No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness.
— Auliq-Ice
Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
It will be a great day in this world when nobody wants anything because everyone has given and there is nothing left to take.
— Anthony Labson
The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives. In such circumstance, values become redefined and what has been worthless in the past, has become the core value of the new age. The disaster starts where the essence of the discourse changes. The modern age, with all its technological advances, has taken human to the fast fall. We are going down faster than being trapped into a mire. The transition of the discourse has also given us a great gift, senselessness. Therefore, we have transitioned into piles of senseless machines, drained of human essentiality and drowning into a giant mire. The sad part is, due to the lack of true sense, we don't even feel it. Our only safety guard, which is entirely absurd and phantasmagoric, comes from following the majority of the world's population. As long as we feel belonged to preponderancy, our nonsense will absolutely make sense.
— Kambiz Shabankare
We know of the pain, the difficulty, the loneliness, the feeling of being abandoned. So we are more likely to reach out to those similarly struggling.
— Auliq-Ice
Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.
— Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
— James Dickey, Self-Interviews
We are a only on this majestic earth for a brief and short period time but of history. Why not use this time in kindness to make humanity a better and brighter place for all❤
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
No one's an angel - especially if he's a man
— Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity
The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belief in the Common Man is a familiar article in the democratic creed. That belief is without basis and significance save as it means faith in the potentialities of human nature as that nature is exhibited in every human being irrespective of race, color, sex, birth and family, of material or cultural wealth. This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life. To denounce Nazism for intolerance, cruelty and stimulation of hatred amounts to fostering insincerity if, in our personal relations to other persons, if, in our daily walk and conversation, we are moved by racial, color or other class prejudice; indeed, by anything save a generous belief in their possibilities as human beings, a belief which brings with it the need for providing conditions which will enable these capacities to reach fulfillment. The democratic faith in human equality is belief that every human being, independent of the quantity or range of his personal endowment, has the right to equal opportunity with every other person for development of whatever gifts he has.
— John Dewey
There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.
— Lolah Runda, Legendary Kamigami
When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.
— Jon Chopan, Pulled from the River
All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.
— Kamand Kojouri
We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.
— Abhijit Naskar, The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience
The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed — let these be your God.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.
— Abhijit Naskar
They taught the women that the home is a shame and in doing so, they successfully decomposed nations. Instead of it being the greatest honour to build a family, it became a laughingstock. And in this becoming, they successfully deconstructed nations. They taught the men that loyalty is merely an option and in doing so, they successfully destroyed nations. Instead of it being the greatest pride to love one woman, it became a joke, a funny side comment. And in this becoming, they successfully poisoned nations. Your home is your atom, your cell, your genome. Your love is your honour, your word, your truth. You wonder why we live in deconstructed nations, you ask one another why you live on torn fibres, cracked ground, and yet you continue to listen to what they tell you. You have put shame where there should be a throne, you have placed a joke where there should be a crown. You have successfully destroyed your nations.
— C. JoyBell C.
Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
The instant that you forget about the consequences of your actions on other people, is the moment that you are about to lose your humanity. We all are related, no matter, what skin color, sexual orientation, gender or religion we hold. We all like rosary beads. Our existence is depended to the rest, if one bead falls apart, the rest of us will do too. Our humanity defines by how we accept, respect and support each other, otherwise we are simply a bunch of animals acting according to our instinct and killing one another to survive.
— Kambiz Shabankare
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.
— Abhijit Naskar
Change biology, and you could change society--but could you change society on its own? Were we as a species simply condemned to permanent misery, all because of how we have evolved?This was the conundrum that the Oankali books had posed to her, and the Parables had been intended (but failed) to solve: How do you create a more sustainable, more benign, more livable society when you're stuck working with human beings?
— Gerry Canavan, Octavia E. Butler
The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness
—  the law determines his humanity.
Whenever a person or agency has substantially more power than others, their behaviour are not democratic. and if in any circumstances their acts are not supervised then Power is always misused by certain people.Humanity is most important state and that is missing throughout world.
— Vikram Singh Slathia
There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.
— John Connolly, The Burning Soul
Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state.
— Abhijit Naskar
Even though the advocates of feminism gladly use the term to refer to equality between man and woman, the common human brain is not capable of perceiving such equality beyond the gender bias of the very word. It'll be same as using Man to refer to both genders. Hence, the only words suitable in this scenario are Humanism and Human, rather than Feminism and Man.
— Abhijit Naskar
You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
If God grace can only come through slaughtering animals, then their is no need of god.No one is above t humanity.
— Vikram Singh Slathia
I felt sad.I felt cold.I felt hurt.I felt forsaken and lonely.I felt doubtful and hesitant.I felt scared and deeply worried. I felt different, unknown, and unwelcome.I felt empty and woefully neglected.I felt weak and intimidated.I felt withdrawn and shy.I felt utterly hopeless.Then you held my hand, and I felt better.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them - or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that’s the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.
— Piper Payne, White Lies
... murder wol out
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
you're going to love your way out of this.out of the hurt.out of the pain.you're going to love your way out of itand be free.
— AVA., you are safe here.
The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.
— Abhijit Naskar
One way or another, all humans are superstitious.
— Abhijit Naskar
A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity
—  a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!
There is one family : MankindThere is one religion : Humanity There is one home : Earth
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
There is one family:MankindThere is one Religion:HumanityThere is one Home:Earth
— Sandesh limbu
I have understood over these last years that in order to believe in God, it is essential to have trust in humanity. There is no God without humanity. I continue not to believe, neither in God, nor in humanity.
— José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion
Do something worth praise,The world turns blind,And get ready to face the rage,When you are just being kind.
— Bikash Chaurasiya
Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and at times inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.
— Christopher Earley
Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it.
— Avinash Rao
The service of humanity, is the service of God.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.
— Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of connection they see mirrored in their fellow man.
— Jacqueline Winspear, An Incomplete Revenge
Whenever I come across someone speaking negatively about escapism or looking down on those who seek a temporary escape from this world, I can't help but look at them as absolute fools. To deny someone the right to find temporary peace in escapism is to deny human nature itself as well as all the benefits of such a beautiful concept. Often times, these instances show them saying that "it'll only make things worse" or "it's not gonna change anything", except, a lot of times, that's not the case at all. How many times has someone shut themselves away from the world by listening to a song they hold dear only to return more ready to face the world than before, how many times has someone learned something about themselves through the fictional events of a novel that they wouldn't have other wise, how many times has society experienced great change through people who dreamed of making the world a better place, only to eventually make those dreams into a reality.
— Justin Allen
Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.
— Chris Holm
The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all.
— Tom Stoppard, Darkside
But human beings must suffer, and must make suffering for themselves, and beat themselves up into spiritual frenzies, and oh death and desolation, and oh night space and horror, and oh keep my dream from me. And how very splendid it is that we can do all this to ourselves and have such a splendid and really ingenious gift for inflicting suffering upon ourselves. For suffering and strain are the gauge of life, and who wishes to live like a vegetable?But sometimes suffering measures life and ends it. And then it is not good at all. And between two people without knowing it a love may grow up, and a link may form, and no one knows or guesses.
— Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper
Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.
— Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone
I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good
— Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.
— Kamand Kojouri
I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.
— Andrena Sawyer
Grant them removed, and grant that this your noiseHath chid down all the majesty of England;Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,And that you sit as kings in your desires,Authority quite silent by your brawl,And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;What had you got? I'll tell you: you had taughtHow insolence and strong hand should prevail,How order should be quelled; and by this patternNot one of you should live an aged man,For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishesWould feed on one another....Say now the kingShould so much come too short of your great trespassAs but to banish you, whither would you go?What country, by the nature of your error,Should give your harbour? go you to France or Flanders,To any German province, to Spain or Portugal, Nay, any where that not adheres to England,Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleasedTo find a nation of such barbarous temper,That, breaking out in hideous violence,Would not afford you an abode on earth,Whet their detested knives against your throats,Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that GodOwed not nor made you, nor that the claimantsWere not all appropriate to your comforts,But chartered unto them, what would you thinkTo be thus used? this is the strangers case;And this your mountainish inhumanity.
— William Shakespeare
Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)
— Sallust, Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Humanity isn't just a work, but it's a divine nature which makes you God.
— Tanmaya Guru
She retained the opinions of trees: one of them being that it was best not to have anything to do with human folk. "Firstly, they cut us down," Rowan said. "Secondly they're all insane, though I suppose they can't help that, being rooted in water instead of earth.
— Helen Oyeyemi, What is Not Yours is Not Yours
Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
— Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work
— Steve Thomas, This Old House Guide to American Houses
The onus on humanity is so great that we turn to love and kindness in order to survive. Love, therefore, is not fulfillment, but a lifetime support for the higher purposes that drive and mark our lives and make the world a better place. The soul derives its strength for pursuits and passion from the love it receives.
— Aditya Bhaskara
Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity.
— Ron Brackin
Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity.
— Neymat Khan
The problem is good has a limit, bad none!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
[Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.
— Herbert Joseph Muller, The Children of Frankenstein: A Primer on Modern Technology and Human Values
I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.
— Mark Tufo, End of an Age
If everyone would've been childlike, not childish, the world would've be a better place.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
— Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet.
— Blake Crouch, The Last Town
Life, how I have dreaded you," said Rhoda, "oh, human beings, how I have hated you! How you have nudged, how you have interrupted, how hideous you have looked in Oxford Street, how squalid sitting opposite each other staring in the Tube! Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant, too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you changed me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into wastepaper baskets with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man either by vote-getting, money-pressure or crude terror. The Revolution repudiates profit or terror altogether as methods of human intercourse. It turns the attention of men and women back from a frantic and futile struggle for the means of power, a struggle against our primary social instincts, to an innate urgency to make and to a beneficial competition for preeminence in social service. It recalls man to a clean and creative life from the entanglements and perversion of secondary issues into which he has fallen. It replaces property and official authority by the compelling prestige of sound achievement. Eminent service remains the only source of influence left in the world . . .
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.
— Don DeLillo, Zero K
And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and priests, the owners and traders, the gentlefolk and the leaders he trusted, have been cheating him tacitly or deliberately, out of his proper share and contribution in the common life. Sometimes almost consciously, sometimes subconsciously, cheating themselves about it as well. When he called upon God, they said 'We'll take care of your God for you', and they gave him organised religion. When he calls for Justice, they say 'Everything decently and in order', and give him a nice expensive Law Court beyond his means. When he calls for order and safety too loudly they hit him on the head with a policeman's truncheon. When he sought knowledge, they told him what was good for him. And to protect him from the foreigner, so they said, they got him bombed to hell, trained him to disembowel his fellow common men with bayonets and learn what love of King and Country really means."All with the best intentions in the world, mind you."Most of these people, I tell you, have acted in perfect good faith. They manage to believe that in sustaining this idiot's muddle they are doingtremendous things -- stupendous things -- for the Common Man. They can live lives of quiet pride and die quite edifyingly in an undernourished, sweated, driven and frustrated world. Useful public servants! Righteous self-applause! Read their bloody biographies!
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome
— Devdutt Pattanaik, My Gita
A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – deeper far than the material truth - to which we at once have recourse, when we try to form a conception of a stranger. Have we not all experienced these things, which take place in the impenetrable regions of almost astral humanity?
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs, values, infatuations, prejudices, ethics, and mores. The lees wrought from our seedlings contribute to the social order that oversees a newborn’s future. How we conduct ourselves in the here and now emulates our heritage, delineates the parameters of the present culture, and sets the embryonic stage for the emergent ethos of our future and for the generations of people whom we will never meet.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people’s eyes or by looking deep within themselves.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Jealousy is not the remedy.It is the illness.
— Gabbo De La Parra
Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that’s our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving.
— Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
Think deeply on this; you cannot be separated from others once you breathe, the earth has the same atmosphere for thousands of years and at some time we share a breath with all humanity.
— Inshan Meahjohn
It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.
— Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.
— Darren Shan, Bec
Victoria was, at the time, far more empathetic and forgiving, chiding Albert for his narrow view of humanity. 'I always think that one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray.
— Leslie Carroll, Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire
See them so it seems that humanity is dead.
— Tanmaya Guru
Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.
— Steven Magee
Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.
— Ufuoma Apoki
You may wonder what you can do for humanity. Humanity desperately needs peace. Be an advocate of peace and teach others to think about peace.
— Debasish Mridha
I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
Listen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”“You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.
— Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song
Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the whole damned show.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don’t throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of a one-member hive. But they’ve learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong- for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
If the history of the last century taught us the dangers of empowering governments to determine genetic “fitness” (i.e., which person fits within the triangle, and who lives outside it), then the question that confronts our current era is what happens when this power devolves to the individual. It is a question that requires us to balance the desires of the individual— to carve out a life of happiness and achievement, without undue suffering— with the desires of a society that, in the short term, may be interested only in driving down the burden of disease and the expense of disability. And operating silently in the background is a third set of actors: our genes themselves, which reproduce and create new variants oblivious of our desires and compulsions— but, either directly or indirectly, acutely or obliquely, influence our desires and compulsions. Speaking at the Sorbonne in 1975, the cultural historian Michel Foucault once proposed that “a technology of abnormal individuals appears precisely when a regular network of knowledge and power has been established.” Foucault was thinking about a “regular network” of humans. But it could just as easily be a network of genes.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History
Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -- yes, damn it! we have a quality -- excuse themselves from the hard and thankless service they owe -- not to the crowd, Dick, but to the race. (Much good it will do is to shirk like that in the long run.) We will not presume, we say, no. We shrug our shoulders and leave the geese, the hungry sheep, the born followers, call them what you will, to the leaders who haven't our scruples. The poor muts swallow those dead old religions no longer fit for human consumption, and we say 'let 'em.' They devour their silly newspapers. They let themselves be distracted from public affairs by games, by gambling, by shows and coronations and every soft of mass stupidity, while the stars in their courses plot against them. We say nothing. Nothing audible. We mustn't destroy the simple faith that is marching them to disaster. We mustn't question their decisions. That wouldn't be democratic. And then we sit here and say privately that the poor riff-raff are failing to adapt themselves to those terrible new conditions -- as if they had had half a chance of knowing how things stand with them. They are shoved about by patriotisms, by obsolete religious prejudices, by racial delusions, by incomprehensible economic forces. Amid a growth of frightful machinery...
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Evolution is constant. Evolving better is individual’s conscience.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.
— Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.
— Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives for the sake of humanity.
— Gift Gugu Mona
It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - Vosch
— Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
It's all about the people. It's all for the people. It's all to the people. That's our ultimate goal.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Humanity is in her infancy, so start enjoying the journey.
— Debasish Mridha
Always do what is right not what is convenient. This will reflect your love and kindness for humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is up to us to decide what human means, and exactly how it is different from machine, and what tasks ought and ought not to be trusted to either species of symbol-processing system. But some decisions must be made soon, while the technology is still young. And the deciding must be shared by as many citizens as possible, not just the experts. In that sense, the most important factor in whether we will all see the dawn of a humane, sustainable world in the twenty-first century will be how we deal with these machines a few of us thought up and a lot of us will be using.
— Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology