888 quotes found
“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
“The purpose of religion was to help humans lead a peaceful life, not to take away life. God/Allah/Ishvar or Hindu/Muslim/Christian are just words - words created by different human minds. Instead ...”
“For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated.”
“Imperfection is the greatness of humanity”
“... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' t...”
“The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made eve...”
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”
“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.”
“Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.”
“One of the greatest lies ever told is that there’s no power in vulnerability.”
“When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by th...”
“God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japanese, and Americans prayed right, they would all be praying for the same intention: Thy Will be don...”
“There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.”
“I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story ...”
“It is a grim job, this business of looking out over humanity.”
“Let kindness reveal your humanity.”
“Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) o...”
“Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he leteverything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning,all that searching, all joy, all distress. This was among t...”
“When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easilyhappen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searchesfor, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter ...”
“As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good...”
