"My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special."
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"When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point."
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"I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict."
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"A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."
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"Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it."
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"Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart."
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"If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection."
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"Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being."
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"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . ."
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"Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation."
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"We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated."
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"It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity."
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"If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete."
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"Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering."
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"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
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"There can be no peace without law."
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"When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma."
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"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."
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"Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions."
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"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind."
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