Humankind Quotes - Page 21

• Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

  Ryan Holmes

  Communication, Media, Email

  "Social Media Strategies For Holiday Retailers" by Ryan Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.54, Celestial Arts

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• Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Commitment, Iraq

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• I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doubt, Individuality, Herds

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• What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Bridges, Goal

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• There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.

  Linda Hogan

  Dream, Islands, Stories

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• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  Stuart Chase

  Fashion, Animal, Men

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• The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Alive, Glory, Glory Of God

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• Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.

  Nichiren

  Joy

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Real, Mean, Passion

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• Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

  Andrew Simms

  Economics, Redundant, Ifs

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• For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Mean, World

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.20, Random House

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• The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Lying, Heart, Earth Day

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• But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

  Ding Ling

  Ambition, Benefits, Persevere

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Self, Play

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• Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions, but in implementing those decisions in the affairs of humankind. Independently and of His own will, God makes the decisions governing the affairs of earth. The responsibility and authority for the enforcement and administration of those decisions, He has place upon the shoulders of the church.

  Paul Billheimer

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Want, Where You Are

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• It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

  Margaret Beckett

  Facts, Natural, Century

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• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Klaus Topfer

  Real, Impact, Assessment

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• The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Action, Appetite

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

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• The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

  Helen Foster Snow

  War, Artist, Government

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• It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Women, Progress, Care

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• God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Father, Compassion, People

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