“In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.” EarthHumanityGrowthTermGrowingBuddhismPercentConsequencePopulationDecadesCrowdedAurasPopulation Growth Author:Frederick Lenz
“Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.” KnowsDoeWisdomHumanityUniversePoliticsEconomyPlanetsPercentNineLiberalismNinetyNinety Nine Book:Critical Path Source: Critical Path
“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.” MenWorldNeedsSelfHumanityNaturalWealthEqualSurvivalPercentTwentiesEnvironmentalPsychologicalLuxuryStabilityDisplayCatastropheEightyPercentagesStewardshipNatural WorldEcologicalPsychological Needs Author:Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
“The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.” HumanityDiseasePercentRacingKillersStrainContagiousAndromeda Author:Eric McCormack
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.” MatterHumanityEvilPercentUnimportantUnimportant Things Author:Russell Baker
“And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” IfsThinkingMenIdeasHumanityEasyAbilityWatchesFiveHonestIntegrityPicksPercentNeighborPocketsNinetyFountainheadUpright Man Book:The Fountainhead Source: The Fountainhead
“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.” IfsYearsHumansLooksChildrenI CanEndsFeelingsProblemJobsNightHumanityChoicesCoursesEvilHuman BeingsMoralTroublePercentTwentiesWingsSurpriseNineRangeAwakeBoredomI've LearnedOverwhelmingCostumesRadarNine YearsSurprise MePlightInsignificanceBad ChoicesAwake At NightMoral Life Author:Douglas Coupland
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.” TryingMadeLyingHumanityMistakePercentNineFatsAshamedNinetyHumiliatedNinety Nine Author:J. K. Rowling