Quotes About Humanity

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

People before Profit.

Somebody who is focused on money, doesn´t care about man. Somebody who cares about man, isn´t focused on money.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion.

This can be the value of our personal suffering. We can understand firsthand that we are all in the same boat and that the only thing that makes any sense is to care for one another.

As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta

The first noble truth says that it's part of being human to feel discomfort

Todos nosotros somos en ocasiones un caso perdido.

suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

We point our fingers at the wrongdoers, but we ourselves are mirror images; everyone is outraged at everyone else's wrongness.

This starts with realizing that whatever occurs is neither the beginning nor the end. It is just the same kind of normal human experience that's been happening to everyday people from the beginning of time.