Skip to content
- “If you look at great human civilizations, from the creation of All tribes to the Small clans,you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.”
―
Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala
- “To Moses, stars were the lights God had created so that night would not swallow everything up.”
―
Mario Escobar,
Children of the Stars
- “I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child’s sweetness. Both are God’s creations filled with precious innocence”
―
Munia Khan
- “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from beings so. Attempting to be more human, individually, leads to having more, egotistical, a form of dehumanization.”
―
Paulo Freire,
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George Orwell
- “I have learned the pace is not go go go.The pace is up and down.There is no race,No finish line.There is always something more for the human soul.”
―
Cassie Jeans
- We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage. Malala Yousafzai
- “Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- “Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
―
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,
Les Liaisons dangereuses
- “Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.”
―
Friedrich Dürrenmatt,
The Pledge
- “I know the concern over the events in our nation doesn’t end at our borders. Because there are no borders, really, if you think about it. Everything we do on this planet has repercussions that reverberate around the world. Because we’re connected. We belong to each other. And we need each other. We will get through this. Together. And we’ll learn and grow and overcome. Together. I believe the good things in this world outnumber the sad. And I believe the good people outnumber the bad. We are the lights sparkling in the darkness, and our hope and love are going to set the world on fire. I believe in us.”
―
L.R. Knost
- “You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that’s left is you.”
―
C. JoyBell C.,
Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
- “Space is the limit. The sky is overrated.”
―
Khali Raymond
- “And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray over the human misery now in the world. The common lot of men binds us to each other and if we will, we may pluck virtue from tragedy.”
―
Julie Summers,
Jambusters: The Women’s Institute at War 1939-1945
- “Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knewfrom his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most peoplecould visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quickglance and declare, “Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.”
―
Julia Quinn,
What Happens in London
- “He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
―
Agustina Bazterrica,
Cadáver exquisito
- “Започнах да разпознавам у човечеството нещо ефимерно, трудно доловимо, но определено присъстващо. Най-просто казано, човечеството имаше нужда да бъде лошо.Жестоко би било да им отнема това.- Бурята”
―
Neil Shusterman
- “Man, we feel in the presence of such mighty maxims, is not an animal; he is not a determinate, finite entity, not a being completed once and for all, but a coming-into-being, a project, a dream of the future, a yearning of nature for new forms and possibilities.”
―
Hermann Hesse,
If The War Goes On: Reflections On War And Politics
- Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King Jr
- “I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”
―
Terry Pratchett,
Sourcery
- “Human beings are not alone in this world, but the inelegant silhouette that captures humankind’s two-thumbed approach to solving the inherent challenges in eking out a daily existence is certainly the product of human being’s clumsily wielded palette knife constantly exacting a steep price upon both nature and humanity.”
―
Kilroy J. Oldster,
Dead Toad Scrolls
- “When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence.”
―
Lidia Longorio,
Hey Humanity
- “There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.”
―
Abhijit Naskar,
Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
- “Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”
―
Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “First, be the true and the real human, second, study it that, what is humanity before you love anyone. You may understand the feeling of each other in a stable conception.”
―
Ehsan Sehgal
- “when you give love…it grows and grows.”
―
Salina Yoon,
Penguin and Pinecone
- “In fact, play is how humans have found their place in the world over millennia. Play is what gives birth to much of human culture: storytelling, meaning-making, art, ritual, and religion. Through play we learn to be human. Through play we learn to worship.”
―
Natalie Carnes,
Motherhood: A Confession
- “Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still suffer from starvation and war. The difference between the past and the present is the difference between throwing rocks and shooting missiles. We are still in conflict. Suffering on a fundamental level hasn’t ceased. But we nevertheless persist in the notion that if we just amass a bit more knowledge, we’ll all be o.k. Maybe a new philosophy will do the trick, or a new system of government. But all of this has been tried many times.Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It’s the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation—a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.”
―
H.E. Davey,
Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
- “The best way to deal with the changes brought about by emerging tech is to make human experience more meaningful.”
―
Kate O’Neill,
Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans
- “Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.”
―
Janna Cachola