“There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.” WorldShouldHumansEarthNationsHuman BeingsCitizensAuthorityClaimsPropertySupremeAspirationSincereSoleGood WillObeyingLive Free Author:Mirra Alfassa
“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.” IfsNeedsHumansEndsSocialGrowthCommunityHuman BeingsCitiesEnvironmentCenturyBuildingCitizensOrganizationAvailableDestructiveDominant21st CenturyConstructiveExplosivesNonprofitsSocial EnvironmentBuilding Community Author:Peter Drucker
“The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.” HumansChildrenOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsResponsibilityConditionsCitizensAdvantageAssumingDuesNeglected Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.” HumansEasyParentHuman BeingsSonCitizensHusbandGood CitizenGood ParentGood HusbandGood Human Being Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.” HumansChristianWealthHuman BeingsCitizensRelationMisers Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were incapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.” PeopleMenBelieveHumansLongSaidGovernmentUsedI BelieveJusticeHuman BeingsPerfectCitizensCapableRegardInjusticePrivilegeEqualityUsed To BeIncapableCan NotConsentEnslavementImmunityFree Government Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.” HumansLooksCountryTodayMovingHuman BeingsCommonShareCitizensMoving ForwardOur Country Author:Clarence Thomas
“I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.” KnowsHumansHuman BeingsRightsCitizensDecided Author:Rosa Parks
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.” PeopleHumansValuesOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsQualityRolesCitizensComfortMembersAddictionConsumersMentalityConvenienceQuality Of LifeReconnecting Author:Tim DeChristopher
“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” HumansStatesLanguageParentBornNaturalHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensConstitutionSovereigntyAllegianceOwing Author:John Bingham
“We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.” HumansEarthFacesNationsHuman BeingsClassCitizensCrossesSickTiredTreatedBordersImmigrantsVirtuousAmerican CitizensSecond Class Citizens Author:Mark Levin
“The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.” FirstsHumansSelfGovernmentSocialHuman BeingsRightsCitizensConstitutionDefenseContractsMeaninglessSelf DefenseSocial Contract Author:Larry Craig
“Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.” MenWantFeelsHumansYoungSufferingWishParentHuman BeingsConditionsBrotherCitizensFellowsCrowdsIsraelStrikesYoung ManDesperatePalestinianBrothers And SistersSurroundingsInjuredCrowdedGazaDynamiteStrike Back Author:Edward Said
“Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people. That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.” PeopleYearsHumansHuman BeingsClassMillionsCitizensProveWeaponsSurvivalTreatsBillionsSuperiorsHomophobicSecond Class Citizens Author:John Shelby Spong
“I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.” HumansHuman BeingsCitizensFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.” HumansWisdomEnergyGrowsHuman BeingsEmotionGrowing UpMagicEmotionalCitizensDrugDirectResponsibleIntentionManageMaturePillsEmotional Energy Author:Doc Childre
“Dr. Ben Carson is a first-class human being and citizen. He is exactly the kind of person that you could trust running any government institution. You would trust him to babysit your kids. He's just an admirable human being.” FirstsHumansKindPersonsGovernmentRunningKidsHuman BeingsClassCitizensInstitutionsDrsAdmirableFirst ClassBen Carson Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.” WorldGivingHumansSchoolOpportunityHuman BeingsVisionIdentityCitizensHatredMissionsEnormous Author:Amartya Sen
“International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.” HumansLawHuman BeingsRightsCitizensInternationalGrantsInternational Law Author:Kofi Annan