Quotes About Humanity

The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.

The Gran Canyon is grand. But we, as beings with self-awareness, are granderthan the Grand Canyon.

It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness. -Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment

History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now

The lesson was clear: Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

we are all strangers / bound by the same spirits

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, `And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Call humanity what it is; an imperfection amongst perfection.

Comforting those in need of it is the duty of human beings.

Complete happiness is not present in the nature of humans.

Drop your weapons and save your souls from an eternity of despair for spreading such evil as war and destruction.

Empathy is the greatest good of all.

Everybody has pain and so, in that, I am no way unique, but it is my role to tell the world of the pains of the people.

Fear not for the world for it will survive on; it is the peoples I worry for and their tendencies to destroy themselves, each other, and the worlds in which they reside; this destructive mentality must change if the Humanic Exploration of The Cosmos is to be successful.