T Quotes
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“The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.”
“The human vagina is growing larger as we speak.”
“The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.”
“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“The Human Virus (Climate Summon)
Mother Earth is a living organism,
forests are the lungs of the planet,
soil is the womb, oceans are blood -
climate change is the planet having fever,
in response to the human virus.
Economy rooted in greed is not growth,
religion rooted in dogma is not holy,
innovation rooted in vanity is not science,
abundance without wholeness ruins the society.
Earth doesn't need our consent to wipe us out,
any more than we asked permission from corona virus.
Cosmos carries no fury like a mother done wrong -
Mother brings us into the world, mother can take us out.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.”
“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.”
“The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.”
“The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.”
Source: The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
“The human weakness that comes from instinct convinces the sleeping man of the desperate state of need of his own existence.
Then envy, ambition, pride and cruelty arise in him.
And man ends up making the most shameful decisions in the name of survival, family, honor and opportunity.
Your renunciation of these negative factors means that you have heard God's call and that one day He will allow you to comprehend the infinite and overcome the fear of death.”
“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”
“The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.”
“The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.”
Source: God is Not Great
“The human worker will go the way of the horse.”
“The human world is made of stories, not people.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”
Source: Ghostwritten
“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing life has become.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop by Morley Christopher Morley
“The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.”
“The human. Now you know all about your target”
“The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.”
“The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.”
“The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.”
“The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.”
“The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.”
“The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, things don't go as expected.”
“The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.”
“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.”
Source: The God of the Machine
“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities
“The Humanitarian Nerd
(Sonnet 1538)
Machines have a tendency of
disconnecting mind from society.
Unless you're driven by a humane dream,
silicon dreams only facilitate inhumanity.
Worse than silicosis is silicon psychosis,
Worse than septicemia es la indiferencia.
Worse than writer's block is fighter's block,
to settle in ice-age is insult of la conciencia.
Before you master raspberry and arduino,
learn to master common everyday humanity.
If you're not burning with the fire to do good,
there's no point to your gray's anatomy.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our species deserves the credit. I am a devout atheist - nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator. However I can see that the promise of infinite immortality is a more palatable proposition than the absolute certainty of finite mortality which those of us who are subject to free thought (as opposed to free will) have to look forward to and many may not have the strength of character to accept it.
Thus I am a supporter of Amnesty International, a humanist and an atheist. I believe in a secular, democratic society in which women and men have total equality, and individuals can pursue their lives as they wish, free of constraints - religious or otherwise. I feel that the difficult ethical and social problems which invariably arise must be solved, as best they can, by discussion and am opposed to the crude simplistic application of dogmatic rules invented in past millennia and ascribed to a plethora of mystical creators - or the latest invention; a single creator masquerading under a plethora of pseudonyms. Organisations which seek political influence by co-ordinated effort disturb me and thus I believe religious and related pressure groups which operate in this way are acting antidemocratically and should play no part in politics. I also have problems with those who preach racist and related ideologies which seem almost indistinguishable from nationalism, patriotism and religious conviction.”
“The humanitarian silo model is increasingly out of touch. It fails against almost any metric. It doesn't help refugees, undermining their autonomy and dignity. It doesn't help host governments, transforming potential contributors into a disempowered and alienated generation in their midst. It doesn't help the international community, leaving people indefinitely dependent upon aid, less capable of ultimately rebulding their countries of origin, and with onward movement as their only viable rout to opportunity.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.
But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.”
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.”
Source: God of the Machine
“The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.”
“The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.”
“The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.”
“The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.”
“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.”
“The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.”
“The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.”
“The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.”
“The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.”
“The Humanity Festival
(Interfaith Anthem, 2598-2599)
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Beyond the void of us and them,
join the circle, break the chains.
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.
Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.
Mercy is no mercy that's reserved for a few,
mercy is the light we carry in all we do.
The spirit of godliness that we hold inside,
is meant to light the world, far and wide.
Fasting and feasting turn to futile noise,
if life drifts from life, trampling human joys.
Candles and fireworks become childish pranks,
if underneath them all the kernel is blank.
Kindness in our soul, courage in our skin -
every person is my people, every stranger is kin.
Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments,
love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”
“The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.”
“The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel
“The humankind is far from being human, and much further kind.”