Humankind Quotes - Page 17

• Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Crazy, Orbit

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Anxiety, Historical

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

  Richard Leakey

  Communication, Reflection, Language

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

  Veronica Roth

  Hate, Thinking, Helping

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

  Martin Amis

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2002.

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, America, Islam

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, Law, Sustainability

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, Suffering

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• The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mother, Son, Environmental

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• By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

  Dalai Lama

  Nuclear, Facts, Destruction

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• Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

  Confucius

  Animal, People, Littles

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• Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Peace, Humanity, Advancement

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• It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Men, May, Said

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.56, Penguin

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• If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.

  Steve Chalke

  Jesus, Love You, Teaching

  "The Lost Message of Jesus". Book by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann, 2003.

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Thinking, Challenges, Sublime

  Harry Emerson Fosdick “Miscellaneous Sermons”

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• This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Religious, People, Training

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• She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Structure, Passing

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.113, Diversion Books

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• All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Different, Three

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• In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Love You, Fire, Share

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• In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

  David E. Cooper

  Good Life, Garden, Civilization

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Self, Gears

  "Man's Place in Nature: The Human Zoological Group". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1966.

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• The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.

  Francis Collins

  Spiritual, Couple, Children

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• In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Lying, Stories

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• I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

  Cornel West

  Optimistic, America, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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