- “It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better. Helen Keller
- “Here in Africa mankind was born. And it was a woman” ― Carlos José Pérez Sámano, África Sueño de Sombras Largas
- “Here’s where stories come in. They tell us the truth of other people’s lives. They shine a light on shared humanity. They make us understand that we are different, but not ‘different’. That our differences are something that makes the human tapestry richer and more colorful, and not a threat.” ― Jeff Zentner, Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration
- “People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- “Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.” ― Boyd Norton, Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning
- “I trade all my pains for peace of God.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real. They are the complex reality of which we are made. Our reality is tears and laughter, gratitude and altruism, loyalty and betrayal, the past which haunts us and serenity.” ― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln
- “We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is.” ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
- “Good deeds awakens the good spirit of every soul.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be “holy” the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “L’angoisse commence pour un homme et le délaissement et les sueurs de sang, quand il ne peut plus avoir d’autre témoin que lui-même.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, What is Literature?
- “The industrial model is gone. People are more than machines.” ― Richie Norton
- “The most important value of the law is protecting the weak.” ― Ja Ya, Ebony
- “I do not hail myself as an atheist, for I am not an atheist. In fact, I have met God, felt God and even lived in God, same as the prophets of human history. But mark you, humanism cannot be compromised because of some doctrines presented as God’s command. In the domain of transcendence, all commands received by the mind, are created by the mind itself. They manifest as divine revelations, but in reality, they are revelations rising from the mind itself. And as such, they have potential to be both good and evil.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
- “The saddest thing you can do as a human is to discuss one person with another for the sake of it. The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good. An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side. However, the WORST thing you can do is to slip in ‘little’ white lies just to save yourself from confrontations & emotional conversations. Complain about each other to each other. Have your freedom … G E N T L Y. Discuss your mind – politely.” ― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More
- “God is the Maker of all men.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We all should unite towards protecting #Human life. Not jew, not Muslim, not Christian. It’s the Humanity in danger.” ― Muzaffar Ahmad Noori Bajwa
- “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.” ― Maya Angelou
- “You are a part of human race, and humanity is the biggest and important team you’ll ever be on.” ― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
- “Saviour Lord Jesus Christ save us, Amen!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Midnight SteelWhen Love’s steel draws near it doth but conspire,And pierces she the hearts of all she holds and so desires.Come thou, dear Love, to sleep, rest in your arms and dream but deep.Help me to love all of my days, so that on sweet earth I may stay.—Valkyrie Kari, Musings in the Night” ― douglas laurent
- “A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
- “We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.” ― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
- “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]” ― David McCullough
- “Anyhow he’ll learn dat folks is human all ovah de world. Dats worth a lot to know, an’ it’s worth going a long way tuh fin out.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk
- “ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one,But many.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem