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I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. – John MacNaughton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. – Nelson Mandela	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. – Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings. – David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars	added by anonymous 13 years ago
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – Marilyn Ferguson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. – Bob Conklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia. – William James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us. – A. J. Toynbee	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. – Pascal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. – R. D. Laing	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind. – Eric Mascall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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