Humankind Quotes - Page 21

• Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

  Gerald Hausman

  Sacred, Mythology, Defined

  4 Copy quote

• Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

  Seth Shostak

  Landscape, Asteroids, Arena

  "Heroic Exploration: Well and Truly Dead?" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.

  Norman Lock

  Animal, Rights, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.

  T.C. Boyle

  Beautiful, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Moving, Saws, Film And Television

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Creating, People

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Tradition, Achieve

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

  Jason Mraz

  Struggle, Home, Careers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

  Bill Nye

  Climate, Serious, Problem

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.

  Red Haircrow

  Love, Hero, Men

  9 Copy quote

• Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind's bloodiest conflicts. In the modern world, it has become clear that people of all religions must bridge these differences and work together, to ensure our survival and realize the vision of peace that all faiths share.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Religious, Men, Bridges

  6 Copy quote

• The quandary of many liberals in America and elsewhere is that they have largely outgrown patriotism but are afraid to face this fact. They are afraid to be called unpatriotic. They are even more afraid to come out openly and say "I am not a nationalist, I don't give a damn about my country. For me, there are no countries, no sides - only the side of humankind."

  FM-2030

  Country, America, Giving

  8 Copy quote

• There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.

  Hannah Szenes

  Stars, Dark, Night

  44 Copy quote

• We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Animal

  4 Copy quote

• Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions, but in implementing those decisions in the affairs of humankind. Independently and of His own will, God makes the decisions governing the affairs of earth. The responsibility and authority for the enforcement and administration of those decisions, He has place upon the shoulders of the church.

  Paul Billheimer

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

  9 Copy quote

• Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Want, Where You Are

  4 Copy quote

• The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Lying, Heart, Earth Day

  27 Copy quote

• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Klaus Topfer

  Real, Impact, Assessment

  7 Copy quote

• God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Father, Compassion, People

  8 Copy quote

• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Self, Play

  8 Copy quote

• But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

  Ding Ling

  Ambition, Benefits, Persevere

  20 Copy quote

• The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Action, Appetite

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

  Helen Foster Snow

  War, Artist, Government

  6 Copy quote