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The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity.  If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

The way of the warrior is based on humanity, love and sincerity

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.  The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.  The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.