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“Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.”
“Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife.”
Source: Timequake
“Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.”
“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier. Christian Humanists also wanted to get back to these ideas, but they were mainly concerned with learning about the early Christian Church, before it had become involved with money-making and superstition. They wanted to read the books of the early Church, especially the gospels of Christ, in the original language of Greek, so that they would know exactly what the writings meant. The leader of the Christian Humanists was Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), who attacked superstitions in the Catholic Church in his writing.”
Source: The Catholic Reformation
“Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.”
“Humanitarian Arithmetic (Sonnet 1354)
If it takes $300bn to end world hunger,
and 7 trillion to fund the next AI wonder,
how many people have to starve to death,
to feed the appetite of the cyberworld?
If Britain's NHS costs about $200bn,
and US military costs 800 billion dollars,
how many have to suffer from sickness,
for the tribal chiefs to feel secure?
If it takes $20bn to end homelessness
in the US, and trillions to colonize Mars,
how many have to sleep in cardboard boxes,
for heirs of billionaires to breed on Mars?
You don't need to be a Ramanujan or Euler,
to solve this simple arithmetic equation.
But you do need a living human heart,
to take responsibility for the solution.”
“Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.”
“Humanitarian Behaviorism
(The Sonnet)
Give me a drop of love,
I'll shower you with monsoon.
Hit me with loads of hate,
I'll silently disappear soon.
I don't approve of hate in return,
I just walk away from wrong done to me.
Wrong done to another is another matter,
I am the bulldozer, if you are the bully.
I am a biologist and behaviorist after all,
I don't need to do harm to restrain harm.
Weaknesses of the apes are my common knowledge,
Where there is brain, there's no need for brawn.
Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Humanitarian concerns are always dismissed as impractical, at least initially.
Humanitarian concerns, however, aren’t high on the national gay movement’s list of priorities; if they were, we’d hear a lot more from them than we do about the inequities that derive from race, class, and gender.”
Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?
“Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Humanitarian Engineer (The Sonnet)
The burning scent of molten solder
is just as intoxicating to me
as the musky scent of soil drenched
in the first downpour of monsoon.
In the right human hands, a soldering iron
can solder the cracks in accessibility,
while in the hands of just clever apes,
soldering iron cooks up circuits of privilege,
while burning down the bridges of equality.
Any engineer can tell the voltage
of a battery from taste, but only
a humane engineer knows how to put
each volt and amp to humanitarian use.
The burnt fingertips count for something,
only when your innovation is catalyst for good.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Humanitarian fire is unputoutable.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Humanitarian fleet professionals are the most crucial life savers charged with the responsibility of moving life saving people with life saving products to people whose lives need to be saved.”
“Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.”
“Humanitarian Industrialization
Fourth industrial revolution my eye! We haven't yet recovered from the disparities produced by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Morons keep peddling cold and pompous dreams devoid of humanity, and morons keep consuming them like good little backboneless vermin. Grow a backbone already!
We always look at the glorious aspects of industrialization and overlook all those countless lives that are ruined by it. But it's okay! As long as we are not struck by a catastrophe ourselves, our sleep of moronity never breaks - so long as our comfort is unchallenged, and enhanced rather, it's okay if millions keep falling through the cracks.
So long as you can afford a smartphone that runs smooth like butter, it doesn't matter if it is produced by modern day slave labors who can't even afford the basic essentials of living. With all the revenue the tech companies earn by charging you a thousand dollar for a hundred dollar smartphone, they can't even pay decent wages to the people working their butt off to manufacture their assets - because apparently, it is more important for the people at the top to afford private jets and trips to space, than the factory workers to afford healthcare, housing and a couple of square meals a day.
And this you call industrialization - well done - you just figured out the secret to glory without being bothered by something so boring as basic humanity.
I say to you here and now, listen well - stop abusing revolutionary scientific discoveries in the making of a cold, mechanistic, disparity infested world - use science and technology to wipe out the disparities, not cause them. Break free from your modern savagery of inhuman industrialization, and focus your mind on humanitarian industrialization.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster recovery”
“Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.”
“Humanitarian Nuclear Physics (The Sonnet)
One nuclear warhead contains 9 lbs of plutonium,
Which can electrify 2000 households for a year.
Yet you use that majestic power of atom as pawn,
In your stoneage geopolitical games of fear.
When monkeys crack the mystery of the atom,
Without developing any civilized purpose,
They go blind with the madness of power,
Atom bombs become newage arrows and spears.
Hypnotized by the mindless pursuit of "could",
Apes rarely ever stop to question if they should!
What good is such science without conscience,
What good is a scientist without a vision for good!
Either atom bombs will be obsolete as bow and arrow,
Or humankind will go extinct like dinosaurs tomorrow.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Humanitarian procurement for emergency response is spontaneous and often unplanned, because although we may plan for a catastrophe the when it may happen maybe a mystery! To address this, innovative solutions must include putting in place long term agreements (framework agreements), contracts for vendor consigned stocks, pre-positioning of stocks which would predictably be used for a broad range of responses and a cash based intervention option to allow people affected to have their dignity of choice.”
“Humanitarianism, altruism, holiness, all these are amateur attempts to define the basic humanity of the humans - once you learn to be a true human, all these petty terms will appear bleak and meaningless.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
“Humanitarianism is a myth,
So are humanism and charity.
They are the world's way,
To sustain nothing but apathy.
Are you a devout hydrophile,
Since you drink water so well?
You are not, right - and why not!
Because water is but life's essential.
In the same way, kindness isn't an ism,
Human helping human isn't an ideology.
If they stick labels on such act of life,
It is but a sign of a rather sick society.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Humanitarianism is rude.”
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”
“Humanitarianism may be appropriate during an emergency phase but beyond that it is counter-productive.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.”
“Humanitarians don't die, they turn martyr.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.”
“Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”
“Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.”
“Humanities without sciences are helpless, sciences without humanities are lifeless.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.”
Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
“Humanity A to Z (The Poem)
A for assimilation is the way,
B for bigotry must be thrown away.
C for conscience when at play,
D for delusions all run away.
E for equality once brought to life,
F for fears can no longer survive.
G for greed when let not to thrive,
H for humility won't be caught in strife.
I for integrity mustn't be compromised,
J for justice will then prevail alright.
K for kindness must never run tight,
L for life can then be lived upright.
M for mercy can never be forgotten,
N for naivety keeps you from being rotten.
O for oppression when is begotten,
P for patience must be overridden.
Q for questions when let fly,
R for rigidity will weaken and die.
S for serenity will go awry,
T for tradition if obeyed dry.
U for unity is our supreme mission,
V for vanity leads only to destruction.
W for wholeness is our salvation,
X for xenophobia is no civilization.
Y for yield we must never to separation,
Z for zeal we mustn't lose for ascension.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.”
Source: In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography
“Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.”
“Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.”
“Humanity, after all, cannot always contain the rage within.”
Source: Crisped + Sere
“Humanity always becomes a conqueror.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Humanity and failure are synonymous with one another – the human race has a destiny to fail, because we have a destiny to grow.”
“Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
“Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.”
“Humanity and love are the two best disciplines.”
“Humanity and nature can never be friends! Nature will not hesitate to starve you in a drought, drown you in the rain, scorch you under the sun, or cause your demise through earthquakes, hurricanes, or diseases. Hence, nature should always be perceived as an adversary, not an ally.”
“Humanity and respect are always an intimidating composition”
“Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.”
“Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.”
“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.”
“Humanity begins with the individual human.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”
Source: Prince of Fools