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Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Be the catalyst for change. Empowering women, empowering humanity

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.

But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.

But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.