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Letter "H" » Humanity
«The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man»
«The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
| About:
Humanity,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, idealism, reserve, self-sacrifice, The Finest
«The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human»
Author: John Naisbitt
| About:
Humanity,
Technology
| Keywords:
breakthrough, breakthroughs, concept, exciting, expanding, occur, technology, The 21st Century
«The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues»
«The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Humanity,
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
sole
«The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.»
«The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Humanity,
Sports
| Keywords:
Olympic, Olympic Games, springtime
«The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Humanity,
Travel,
World
| Keywords:
actor, know nothing, restaurants, satisfying, spectator, The Restaurant, trains, traveller
«The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
catastrophic, cultures, graveyard, graveyards, incapacity, planned, rational, reaction, The History, The History of, voluntary
«The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
People,
Stupidity
| Keywords:
comprehend, extent, Infinities, infinity, stupidity
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