Humankind Quotes - Page 14

• If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

  Harry Belafonte

  Believe, Rights, Long

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• Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

  William James

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

  Geoffrey Sampson

  Achievement, Intellectual, Scripts

  "Fifty Wonders of Korea Volume 1: Culture and Art". Book by Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project, 2007.

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• One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Pride, Son

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.169

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• At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Healing, Character, Mean

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• Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Struggle, Animal, Clothes

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• Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Self, Knowing

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• I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.

  Andrew W.K.

  Reality, Thinking, Accomplishment

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward.

  Li Hongzhi

  Looks, Able, Leap

  "Falun Gong (English Version)". Book by Li Hongzhi, 2002.

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• School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Education, School, Order

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

  Erica Jong

  Fear, Future, Foolish

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Taught

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• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Mind, Development

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Thinking, Political

  "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.

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• In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

  Tanith Lee

  Fate, Survival, Now And Then

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• Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dog, Names, Justice

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• Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Agents, India

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• Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Sex, Technology, Legends

  "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Two, Humanity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Men, Shining, Culture

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• Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Simple, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.158, Ravenio Books

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• Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Soul, Individual

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.88, Odyssey Editions

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• Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

  Marya Mannes

  Self, Humanity, May

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vegetarianism, World

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