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"Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution."
"By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes."
"The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact."
"What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."
"Humanity would never tolerate it"
"In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference."
"Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible."
"We can't separate our humanity from our poetry."
"I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is."
"Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ."
"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."
"Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson."
"We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going."
"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
"I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things."
"I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity."
"Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause."
"The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity."
"There is nothing more attractive than a person who radiates simple unaffected humanity."
"Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it."
