100 Quotes About Humankind

Sometimes, we humans can be so full of ourselves. We treat each other as objects, as tools to be used and thrown away. It’s a sad reality, one that our species has been guilty of for a very long time. Thankfully, there are those that have been around long enough to know better, those who have seen it from both sides Read more

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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue). Jess C. Scott
All the world's a stage and most of us are...
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Unknown
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The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland–a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth–can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth. Unknown
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To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language. Suzy Kassem
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Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime–if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more–was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside. Jess C. Scott
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Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things–though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside. Jess C. Scott
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O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree. Suzy Kassem
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O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror – and misuses His name. Suzy Kassem
Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and...
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Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people. Germany Kent
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O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know? What can I tell you of faith, of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow? O, angels, don’t pluck another feather, this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather. Please, angels, try. We are one all together. Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen: We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly, it might happen again. We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly, we are no more than human. Kamand Kojouri
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Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption. Kilroy J. Oldster
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering...
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May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. Kamand Kojouri
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I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost. If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself. Alexis De Tocqueville
I will write one book that will change entire humankind...
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I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. Santosh Kalwar
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. Mahatma Gandhi
Every religion should be in favor of humankind.
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Every religion should be in favor of humankind. Santosh Kalwar
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You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificentreflection of God. Suzy Kassem
You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you -...
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You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Abhijit Naskar
Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am....
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Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life. Abhijit Naskar
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Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. Abhijit Naskar
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The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence. Abhijit Naskar
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A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings. Abhijit Naskar
How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress,...
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How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human. Abhijit Naskar
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Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life. Abhijit Naskar
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The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives. Abhijit Naskar
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Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures. Abhijit Naskar
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I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation. Abhijit Naskar
O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon...
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O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society. Abhijit Naskar
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I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history. Abhijit Naskar
Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need...
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Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do. Abhijit Naskar
Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can...
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Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Abhijit Naskar
All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by...
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All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women. Abhijit Naskar
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Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom. Abhijit Naskar
Women are no sheep.
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Women are no sheep. Abhijit Naskar
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Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes. Abhijit Naskar
Any nation that does not learn to place women on...
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Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness. Abhijit Naskar
You are not born to follow the society, you are...
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You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it. Abhijit Naskar
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The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age. Abhijit Naskar
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For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown off, and playthings to be abused and toyed with. Now is the time to stop this primitive madness. Abhijit Naskar
Beauty is an illusion.
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Beauty is an illusion. Abhijit Naskar
If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes...
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If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it. Abhijit Naskar
Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the...
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Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity! Abhijit Naskar
What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve...
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What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years. Abhijit Naskar
The human heart is first a human heart, then everything...
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The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever. Abhijit Naskar
There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not...
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There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”. Abhijit Naskar
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Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time. Liu Cixin
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People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water. . Akira Kurosawa
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence...
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Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity Chinonye J. Chidolue
The world had to change and for some reason the...
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The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places. Robin Hobb
Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing...
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Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation. Kilroy J. Oldster
Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one...
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Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God? Lailah Gifty Akita
Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ...
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Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together. Lailah Gifty Akita
Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to...
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Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind. It is within the reach of every heart and hand. Lailah Gifty Akita
You ought to forgive others. Sometimes, the dark deed of...
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You ought to forgive others. Sometimes, the dark deed of others is due to inner struggles and fears. With your shining light and kind deeds, you will help them to turn to the light. Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the...
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Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind. Lailah Gifty Akita
We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of...
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We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion. But we must not hate each other. We are one human family. Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.
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The greatest force of humankind is the power of love. Lailah Gifty Akita
We must live as people with great hope.
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We must live as people with great hope. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Ideal humane leadership begins with a real demonstration of love, continues relating with acceptance of fellow humankind and consciously follows that through with every opportunity. Tracey Bond
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They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy. And if you do not have empathy, then you will not gain, learn and remember valuable knowledge from your experiences, or those around you, so that you one day become wise. Yet most importantly, wisdom comes from having a good memory. If you do not remember anything, or are so disconnected from basic humanism to even care to dissect lessons to be gained from every experience in your life and from those around you - using simple reason and the juggling of feelings, then wisdom will forever remain a faraway planet to you. Suzy Kassem
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We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back. Bryant McGill
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Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others. Germany Kent
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Heaven lies in the heart of humankind. Lailah Gifty Akita
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart. Kamand Kojouri
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If you want to save the humankind, you should first take care of Nature.It's the legacy that we leave behind, That brings us hope, that's for sure! Ana Claudia Antunes
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Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. Robin Hobb
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Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind. Lailah Gifty Akita
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To carry each other’s burdens, we must care for one another. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Lailah Gifty Akita
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God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves. Suzy Kassem
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Gentleness is a great strength. Lailah Gifty Akita
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We are sisters. We are brothers. We are family. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life is an individual race of endurance. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The heart in every human is the sacred love. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family. Lailah Gifty Akita
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We are all the products of nature composed with essential elements. Every natural force has an opposite. The components of earth, wind, water, and fire comprise nature. Similar to nature, we contain complementary, contradictory, and counterpoising elements. Kilroy J. Oldster
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I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind? Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. Carl Sagan
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Once again, he became outraged that humans–more specifically his dad–would rather invest in something pointless than the people right in front of them. Would Earth still suffer and need movements dedicated to its healing if humankind was rooted in reality? Jesikah Sundin
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When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you're taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world's broken people. C. Joybell C.
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What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another? Lailah Gifty Akita
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The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human thinking - Surprising reforms, stunning success! The power that created in Muslims a ravenous appetite for knowledge sprung from the Quran. B. Margoliouth
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Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands. Madelaine Standing
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A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. Daisaku Ikeda
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He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. George Rivorie
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The history of mankind, " said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the common man by the men he has trusted."" By the men the lazy, haphazard, childish oaf was too wilfully stupid to mistrust, " said Bodisham. "The history of mankind from the very beginning has been a history of over-trusted trustees, corrupted by their unchecked opportunities. H.G. Wells
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My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more. Katherine McIntyre
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So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes. Fakeer Ishavardas
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There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity. Germany Kent
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I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires. I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately. I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind. I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own. Stephenie Meyer
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For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life. Mika Waltari
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Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise. Kilroy J. Oldster
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If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. Silvia Hartmann
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Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind. Madelaine Standing