. . . humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet. . . Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.
One country. . . one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches. . . We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
Humankind cannot stand reality.
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. . . . Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.