Quotes About Humanity

Through the story of Ram, Vyasa is trying to explain that while we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more. And just as they survived and triumphed over their suffering, we must too.

Arjuna, in age after age, whenever humanity forgets its potential and functions as it should not, I manifest to inspire those with faith and shake up those without faith, so that humanity never ever forgets what it is capable of.'—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, verses 7 and 8 (paraphrased).

Adharma is thus an eternal temptation, while dharma is an endless work in progress that validates our humanity.

Ram and Ravana represent two ends of the human spectrum.

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them

Animals take decisions all the time. Only humans have the option not to take decisions.

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,' said Ram.

The war is not for you, Arjuna, but for civilized human conduct. Remember,

The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them

BUT BRAHMA STUBBORNLY REFUSES TO take the journey towards Purusha. He is determined to find identity and meaning through Prakriti alone. Brahma divides subjective reality into two parts: what belongs to him and what does not belong to him. Property is thus created. It is humankind's greatest delusion through which humanity seeks to generate meaning and identity.

Destiny and desire, karma and kama, are the two forces that propel the world. Destiny is a reaction, an obligation that follows an action. Desire is an aspiration that forces the world to transform in a particular way. Destiny creates fate. Desire is based on free will. We have the freedom to accept life as it is or to make it the way we want it to be. That is what makes us Manavas or humans. Kaikeyi

We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.

Kali with the most primal form of nature, before culture and outside culture, unaffected by rules and opinions of humanity. She is power, raw and elemental, both venerable and frightening. Human society is created within her; she ultimately consumes human society.

Do not punish yourself if you waver. Humans judge, nature does not.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.

Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family. The debt we owe them is too big to ever repay.

That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

St. Teresa of Ávila once said, "God has no hands but yours. . . . Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Although Lewis's Trilogy is too often portrayed as an uninformed and inaccurate attack on science, a closer look reveals that it is, in fact, a prophetic warning against scientism and an inspiring vision for a regenerate science. Lewis warns that scientism -- a caricature of science that rejects all moral goods except survival and abandons objective truth in favor of power -- will dehumanize us by stripping us of pity, happiness, and freedom.

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!