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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

  Neil Armstrong

  Topics in Achievement, Humanity

  Tags in Demonstrating

• Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.

  Jane Jacobs

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Difficulties, City

• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Dissent, Humanity

  Tags in Diversity, Creativity

• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Elections

• A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Empathy

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in History, Humanity

• Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

  Anne Sullivan

  Topics in History, Humanity, Knowledge

• The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

  W. H. Auden

  Topics in History, Humanity, Knowledge

• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Good, Enemies

• The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice

• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Beauty, Humanity

  Tags in Compassion, Connections, Globalism, Philosophy

• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

  Henry Reed

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, Relationships

• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Interdependence, Imitation

• There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

  John Astin

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Intuition

• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights

• Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Humanity, Kindness

• The purpose of democracy — supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish’d dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance — is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures,

  to illustrate, at all hazards, this doctrine or theory that man, properly train’d in sanest, highest freedom, may and must become a law, and series of laws, unto himself, surrounding and providing for, not only his own personal control, but all his relations to other individuals, and to the State; and that, while other theories, as in the past histories of nations, have proved wise enough, and indispensable perhaps for their conditions, this, as matters now stand in our civilized world, is the only scheme worth working from, as warranting results like those of Nature’s laws, reliable, when once establish’d, to carry on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity

  Tags in Humanism, Law

• Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

  Virginia Satir

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Discovery, Values, Creativity

• I love humanity but I hate people.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Humanity, Love

  Tags in Hatred