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  • I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.

    Kings   Thinking   People  
  • The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

    Heart   Order   Feet  
  • Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

    Elude Us   Scary   Secret  
    Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books
  • I think we can all recognize in some way or another that we as a human species, have been granted an incredible gift of intentionality and of consciousness. Perhaps this gift is a hint to how we should conduct our lives.

    Thinking   Hints   Way  
  • I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

  • If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

  • Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

    Dust   Next   Evolution  
  • We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

    People   Bangs   Way  
    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

    Lonely   War   Ocean  
    "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 13: "Who Speaks for Earth?", 1990.
  • We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

    Nuclear   Earth   Speak  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.357, Ballantine Books
  • We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that and relate the way they should be, future is pretty dim for the human species.

    People   Way   Earth  
    "Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons, Pete Seeger on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 9, 2013.
  • I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

    RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.
  • The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

    War   Moving   Europe  
  • Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

  • Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

  • The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

  • Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

    Fighting   Order   Soul  
  • For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

    Gone   May   Firsts  
    Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.33, Odyssey Editions
  • A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

    Military   Moon   Space  
    Ben Bova (1983). “The High Road”, Pocket
  • Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

    War   Adventure   Science  
  • It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

    Baby   Answers   World  
    Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.347
  • Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

    "Interview: Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist/presidential Candidate". Interview with Dan Ammon, mcqshield.wordpress.com. January 5, 2015.
  • I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

  • I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

    "James Cameron touts vegan diet during Nat Geo gala" by Michael d'Estries, www.mnn.com. June 17, 2013.
  • We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

  • Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  • Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

    Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.445
  • Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

    Beer   Substance   May  
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