“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.” HandsHumanityOrderStrongNationsPowerfulResponsibilityVirtueFateHigherWeakClaimsInstrumentsChosenObedienceImpulseLatterInclinationCravingHigher PowerQuestionableProclaimingAbsolutionMalevolence Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.” YearsMayAgeHumanityClaimsPityTenderness Author:Margaret Deland
“How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.” PeopleAmericaHumanityCultureExistenceClaimsIronicPersecutedInhumanityRepressed Author:Sonny Rollins
“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensWarWholeProblemPastHumanityDifferencesChanceFiveFocusEvolutionThousandSixClaimsInstitutionsSevenPeacefulEvolveRelatedRetiringThousand YearsInterfaith Author:Wayne Teasdale
“I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.” MenWorldRealSufferingHumanityStrongConditionsHorrorMen And WomenClaimsForgottenInsaneMiserableHelplessLegislatureOutcastAsylumsMassachusettsDesolateUnconcerned Author:Dorothea Dix
“I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.” PeopleFirstsChildrenHas BeensSoulMotherHumanityDemandEssentialsClaimsPhotographIndividualityMy ChildrenGrandmotherRecallsClosestButtonsIgnoredBiographiesTemperamentNomadicTime And Patience Author:Gertrude Kasebier
“If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?” IfsWorldDoneHumanityAnimalPiecesAliveConcernClaimsBillionsChickensCowsPigsTurkeysSlaughterhousesMistreatedDone With Love Author:Gary Yourofsky
“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.” MenWorldShouldFirstsLooksFactsDesireHumanityAsksGrowsPleasureOne ThingSacrificeDemandClaimsFellowsInevitableSelfishnessThings In LifeDisappointPlaces To LiveTolerableUnselfishnessHuman Bondage Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.” IfsJobsHumanityFightingAliveProveClaimsQuittingShoppingMasturbationQuitting Your Job Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?” ShouldSufferingHumanityPoorClassPovertySceneEnlightenmentClaimsResponsibleAbsenceLegacyStablePeasantsVisitorsDeficiencyVulgarityUpper Class Author:Mary McCarthy