"Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself."
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"Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
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"The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part."
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"I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone."
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"Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites."
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"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom."
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"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."
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"There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb."
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"Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy"
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"For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."
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"Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity."
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"Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them."
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""Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God."
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"Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature."
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"The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced."
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"You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism."
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"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
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"We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity."
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"To be human means to feel inferior."
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"Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity."
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