“The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.” RealProblemEarthAmericaChallengesTechnologyOur LivesMankindCenturySecurityPlanetsCitizensMetsOne DayMoonWeaponsPrisonTerrorSolveDefenseNuclearNuclear Weapons20th CenturyHistoricTransformingShieldsStrategicObsoletePlanet Earth Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986
“We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.” IfsWayShouldLooksWholeParentViewsOur LivesMankindCreationBranchesPushingAnimatedBudNature Of ManSprungHeredityEmbryosSeparate Lives Author:Francis Galton
“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.” WorldFatherNaturalWonderDarknessOur LivesFateSacrificeMankindLessonsIntellectualDevilMercyConstantSurroundSuperstitionsContinuingOffendedDeitiesNatural WorldGreatest GiftsEliminationIncreasing Knowledge Author:James D. Watson
“The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.” MayActionOur LivesMankindMoralityBasesWelfareBlessAdaptationPromotionOur ActionsUtilityEndeavourGeneral Welfare Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography
“Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.” LittlesMadeSelfDreamCareBeliefGivenDecisionExistenceOur LivesAchieveMankindConsciousMasteryCreedsIrrationalGiven UpBelief In GodIrrational Beliefs Author:John Gray
“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” WayShouldWarPoliticsResponsibilityPowerOur LivesMankindShould HaveAcceptedDawnCampsHandfulDoing NothingOppressorsSlaughterhousesVendetta Author:Alan Moore
“Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.” MenWorldWayGivingHeartMadeDifferentWould BePainOpportunityJesusChristSinTeachStruggleOur LivesSacrificeMankindThis WorldSonEternalJesus ChristEmptyInfiniteMiseryEternal LifeExaltationRedeemingRedeeming Love Author:Gordon B. Hinckley