494 Quotes About Humanity-and-society

You are your own messiah.

Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.

Humanity begins with the individual human.

If you have realized your responsibility towards your society, then you are more enlightened that all the priests, imams and pundits combined.

Without myth, imagination we are only half-people, trapped in a wasteland of our own creation.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

The passionate hear touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.

Oh, childishly sullen arrogance, what have you done with the vast majority of humanity?