“To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.” WantSelfFeelingsHumanityWonderfulSelf EsteemEsteemContributionAbout YourselfWhat You LoveDoing What You Love Author:John Assaraf
“I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he was a human being who achieved such promise of humanity that he entered into what I think God is: mainly, the power of life, the power of love and what Paul Tillich, a German theologian of the mid-twentieth century, called "the ground of all being."” ThinkingHumansLooksDifferentWholeStoriesHumanityTurnsJesusHuman BeingsCenturyPromiseTheologianTwentieth CenturyPower Of LoveVantage Point Author:John Shelby Spong
“What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human life needs to be empowered. We have to begin to see the work of God as expanding the humanity of people so that they do not have to relate to one another out of the survivor mentality of fallen people.” PeopleNeedsHumansHappensHumanityFallRelateHuman LifeFallenSurvivorMentalityExpandingEmpowered Author:John Shelby Spong
“We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.” YearsHardHumanityMillionsStruggleSurvivalWinnerMentality Author:John Shelby Spong
“There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.” ThinkingValuesHumanityChristianitySurvivalGreat Value Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think if you're convinced that you're evil, and that God has had to rescue you, then the best you can be is grateful. But nobody ever loves the person they have to be perpetually grateful to. That's just not the way it works in humanity. You need to be set free. You need to be loved just as you are so that you can become all that you can be. That's the direction we have to turn the Christian message; when we do, it becomes universal.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsPersonsChristianHumanityTurnsEvilMessagesUniversalGratefulConvincedRescue Author:John Shelby Spong
“We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.” ThinkingWayPersonsCertainHumanityDemocracyConstitutionBoundsBest WayRelatedGuarantees Author:John Shelby Spong
“I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.” PeopleWantMeanBodyDesireHumanityOrderFallChristianitySkyLimitsWho We AreMutualRescueWant UInterdependenceMutual Respect Author:John Shelby Spong
“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.” IfsWellsArtBookHumanityTalkingNew YorkPerceptionUnderstoodPressesInstancePhenomenology Author:Robert Barry
“I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.” PeopleThinkingWorldRealEndsTogetherHumanityInterestingFictionTechnologyCommunicationWasteScience FictionEnvironmentalBad ThingsReal WorldGreat Technology Author:Palmer Luckey
“The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.” PeopleHumansHas BeensHumanityConditionsPlanetsMajorityTyrannyHuman ConditionDictatorshipBondagePestilenceExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws. It wasn't based in humanity, although that's the way it was sold. It was rooted in registering voters.” WayIdeasLawHumanityNeededImmigrationVotersRootedImmigration LawsTed Kennedy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This has been the left's technique. The technique is to portray a political enemy of the left as this outrageous caveman or whatever decrepit form of humanity that you can describe, and then assume that everybody else agrees, and then cover the story as though everybody agrees.” Has BeensStoriesFormPoliticalHumanityLeftEnemyAgreeAssumingTechniqueOutrageousDecrepitPolitical Enemies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That is why Russia is hated. That is why China is hated. They are forming a tremendous, final defense line protecting humanity from the Western terror.” HumanityLinesWesternFinalsTerrorChinaDefenseRussiaHated Author:Andre Vltchek
“ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.” Has BeensPoliticalValuesHateHumanityCommonCrimeClimateCurrentsTerroristRisingEntityRhetoricShockingIsisHate CrimeCommon HumanityBarbarityPolitical Rhetoric Author:Jonathan Sacks
“The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.” BelieveIdeasDifferentRealityHumanityDiesMagicEnlighteningDifferent PlaceTapestry Author:Matthew Healy
“I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.” WritingTryingRealCharacterHumanityBehindsStriveAspireDefiniteSonnet Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.” SelfHumanityHellEgoWeaponsGreedFloodPlagueNarcissisticFaminePresumptionHoundsSpawn Author:Tom Robbins
“When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.” ShouldProblemHumanityCultureSeriousReasonableNot Happy Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.” WorldLawHumanity Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.” WorldSoulTodayLastsHumanityBeliefRightsMovementNeededAngryViolentCivil RightsOppressionWorld TodayCivil Rights MovementVindictive Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsPainTogetherRememberHumanityForceMorningPossibilityThis WorldWallTransformationSticksFingersEvery Morning Author:Shane Claiborne
“One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.” ShouldHumanityAmountLiberationContemptRefrainShaving Author:Coco Chanel
“There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.” IfsNeedsHumansHappensHumanityHuman BeingsConsciousnessPlanetsReady Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.” WorldKindDifferentStatesHumanityConsciousnessOptimisticDifferent KindsStates Of Consciousness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.” WayLongSoulHumanityPassion Author:Q-Tip
“My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.” StoriesHumanityOpportunityEvolutionBirthUniqueConsciousUniversalMissionsAwakeningUnique Opportunities Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.” MeanHumanityEvolutionConsciousChaosDisasterContributingParticipatingForeseen Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.” PeopleBelieveCountryHelpingSufferingHumanityI BelieveDealsCommonI Believe InPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.” WorldImportantHumanityMembersHumbleChosenServantServant Of God Author:Fethullah Gulen
“The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve the world in strict avoidance of corruption and bloodshed. It requires treating all things and beings with deep compassion. This is my philosophy, which obliges me to remain aloof from all worldly titles and ranks.” WorldHas BeensPhilosophyHumanityCompassionWorshipAll ThingsCorruptionTitlesDimensionsStrictWorldlyAvoidanceWorship GodBloodshedAloof Author:Fethullah Gulen
“I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.” TryingHeartAblePoliticalHumanityPleasureKnownMy HeartAmbitionGainsPolitical Ambition Author:Fethullah Gulen
“Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.” PeopleThinkingMaySchoolHumanityPleasureGainsResourcesOrganizationResponsibleInstitutionsFinancialGenerositySuspicionMisunderstandingZealFinancial ResourcesIgnoring People Author:Fethullah Gulen
“We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.” EnoughHumanityAliveOceanEatingPopulationFishesExpanding Author:Paul Watson
“I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.” LawHumanityBoundariesInsanityCollectivesEcologyEcologicalHaving Hope Author:Paul Watson
“We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.” MenWayMayLightSpiritHumanityFightingSoundFirePeriodsDareShipsAbandonRatsCornyDrowningGamble Author:Charles Bukowski
“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.” HumansHumanityOrderIndividualInterestCreationDevelopmentTruth IsPureUniversalSubjectiveSubjectivityUnforeseen Author:Alain Badiou
“Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.” HumanityCapitalismContraryDestructiveVehicleFierceSavagesNihilism Author:Alain Badiou
“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.” IfsMindFirstsSoulSpiritHumanityCommonPossibilityPlanetsDevelopmentAdultsBlowFree WillMatureCommon Experience Author:Ken Wilber
“I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.” ThinkingHumansHumanity Author:Robert Thurman
“We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.” IfsMenHumanityGirlBoysResourcesIncludingDevelopingEmpoweringOur Society Author:Sally Kohn
“This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.” IfsThinkingPainHumanityNaturalDealsAcceptingWonderfulShareParticularPerspectiveDifficultyFolksGenreOver YouEmbarrassedFolk MusicBlues Music Author:Joan Osborne
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” HumansHumanityFlowerMeaningfulPoliteness Book:Some of the Source: Some of the
“I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.” ThinkingImportantCharacterHumanityComplexesConnectedLgbtFlawed Author:Kit Williamson
“All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show [ Westworld] is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.” IfsWayLooksStatesShowsRealityHappensActionHumanityFunStuffTechnologyCrazyDramaRight NowIntellectualWestNightmareArtificial IntelligenceArtificialFar AwayExistentialExploringHboWild West Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.” WorldHumanityLove IsPracticeAspectCrossesCriticalDividesActivateOtherness Author:Jean Houston
“I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I'm sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.” WayEarthHumanityPlanetsInternetPeriodsConcernScientistTransitionNew WaysPlanet EarthAdapting Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.” WarHumanityTurnsStepsGenerationsEventsGreatnessCreatingDisasterExtinctionDinosaursFootnotesMeteors Author:Louie Psihoyos
“When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow.” IfsHas BeensPlayDesireHumanityOpportunityGrowsUnderstandingChallengesPerfectLaughingCryBecomingBalanceBurdenShouldersOpportunities To LearnPerfect Balance Author:Bryan Kest