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“Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.”

World Should Whole Humanity Civilization Conscious Ideals Historical Worthy Limitation Stable

Book:Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization

Source: Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization

“One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.”

People Thinking Should Mind Art Real School Young Humanity Nice Middle Example College West Broads Pastor Liberal Arts Linguists Liberal Arts College

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Has Beens Government Humanity Pay Taxes Method Credit Producers Consumers Manipulation Commerce Employed Obliged Fixing Financiers

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.”

Should Different Self Earth Humanity Cutting Security Defined Welfare Consideration Sections National Security Paramount

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.”

World Should Humanity Nations Pure Directors Blind Library Ancient Greek Divided Centre Good And Bad Fitting Barbarians Chauvinism Ancient World Alexandria

Author:Carl Sagan

“Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.”

Needs Feels Should Long Important Done Pain Humanity Poor Poverty Prisoner Motto Making Peace Plight Important Work

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.”

Knows Should Mind Persons War Enough Care Humanity Talking Compassion Wonder Bears News Gun Tests Rewards Passing Passings Grades Tonight Target Discussing Passing A Test

Author:Paige

“It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.”

Ifs Should May Law Humanity Individual Crime Criminals Treatment Occasional

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.”

“Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.”

World Should Heart Self Home Lying Humanity Individual Levels Common Responsibility Planets Survival Overcoming Universal Difficulty Greed Defence Dominion Guise Common Humanity Self Defence

Author:Dalai Lama

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”

Should May Persons Desire Humanity Causes Progress Mankind Humanitarian Humanist Creeds Humanitarianism Lumps Future Progress

Book:Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

Source: Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.”

Should Firsts Reality Humanity Asks Liberty Path Failing Revolution Lessons Draws Tyranny

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”

Should Has Beens Mother Humanity Father Stars Majors Should Have Dragons Tails Astrology Should Have Been Firmament Nativity

Author:William Shakespeare

“What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?”

Should Earth Humanity Heaven Fellows Skepticism Crawling Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Mortality In Hamlet Morality In Hamlet Hamlet Love

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.”

“Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.”

Needs Should Persons Form Humanity Love Is Growing Teaching Childhood Subjects Communication Core Supreme Agents Developing Hierarchy Curriculum Early Childhood Need Love

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.”

People Should Remember Political Humanity Environment Crime Building Injustice Planes Flew Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Robert Fisk

“Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.”

Should Humans Humanity Race Stage Development Human Race

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.”

Should Long Humanity Natural Figures Office Sitting Capitalism Dollars

Author:Yann Martel

“Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.”

People Thinking World Should Matter Whole Humanity Courses Speak Term Down And West Journalist Assumption Distinction Establishment Usefulness

Author:John Pilger

“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.”

Should Problem Humanity Culture Serious Reasonable Not Happy

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“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.”

Should Humanity Amount Liberation Contempt Refrain Shaving

Author:Coco Chanel