Humanity Quotes
This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.
Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word of Arabic to write a book like the one I wrote.
We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.
there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.
If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.
I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.
And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.