#humanit

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#afford #because #belong #child #club

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#clearly #conscience #humanity #justice #own

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. ↗

— George Soros

#common #common interests #dominant #humanity #interests

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

These months drive us to listen within. ↗

— Charol Messenger

#futurist #mayan-calendar #new-cosmic-age #new-humanity #nostradamus

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cultural #economic #global #humanity #introduce

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#dignity #excellence #humanity #importance #labor

The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon. ↗

— Diet Eman

#fear #humanity #diet

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. ↗

— David Mitchell

#god #humanity #age

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #age