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  • Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

    Creating   People   Tools  
    "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.
  • Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

    Sex   Class   Differences  
    SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”
  • Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

    Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier
  • The new shift in thinking is the gateway to human transformation. And because of the sheer number of people involved in this shift, and the growing magnitude of the crises that are driving us to change the way we think, we are standing on the threshold of human transformation at a level unlike anything ever before known on Earth.

  • It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

    Real   Mean   Simple  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

    Mary Baker Eddy (1953). “The Christian Science Journal”
  • ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

    June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books
  • No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

    Knowing   Add   May  
    "Risky Genetic Fantasies". The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001.
  • 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  
  • Politeness is the flower of humanity.

    Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84
  • Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

    Dream   Writing   Space  
  • We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

    Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
  • Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

    Eye   Moon   Hands  
    Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.124, New Directions Publishing
  • The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

    Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press
  • As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

  • Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

    Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
  • [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social upheavals which their own work primarily has brought about in human relationships.

  • Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

    David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing
  • There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

  • The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.118, Shambhala Publications
  • To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

    Men   Heaven   Humanity  
  • In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

    Laughter   Sleep   Odds  
  • Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.

  • I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

    Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company
  • In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

    Animal   Goal   Justified  
  • Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  • For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

    Source: time.com
  • It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

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