Human Nature

"It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people c…"

"American Montessori Society"

"If, against all expectation, Germany finds itself in a difficult situation then she can be sure that the Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet…"

"So I read about various aspects of vegetarianism—the scientific aspect, the humane aspect, the ethical aspect, and the economic aspect. The more I studied, the more convinced I became that it was a lo…"

"Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine."

"Far too often, Christians have accepted the common secular view that we are the masters of animals, their rulers or owners — utterly forgetting that the dominion promised to humanity is a deputized do…"

"Not every specific semiotics can claim to be like a natural science. In fact, every specific semiotics is at most a human science, and everybody knows how controversial such a notion still is. However…"

"Ingels: We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again."

"Humanity has invoked Maitreya into the world in a broad sense; His decision to reappear was made between 1936 and 1945. But He still has to be invoked into the general arena of the world. The fact tha…"

"Much as I hate to admit it, humanity will get along perfectly well without me. Any species that could invent the twentieth century entirely on its own doesn’t need a Prince of Darkness."

"She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had…"

"The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk."

"At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change …"

"We in India, as a result of our planned economic development, not central planning, but mixed planning, mixed economy, we have experimented with, we have moved to a stage of partial maturity of the ec…"

"Britain's relationship with the English-speaking Commonwealth was closer than that with the Continent. That is how the British people feel."

"The International Erich Fromm Society"

"People define themselves in terms of both unique individualizing attributes and collective attributes of the groups to which they belong."

"The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances cannot interest people before the interiorization of alphabetic technology."

"I just want to point out that I’m not pointing fingers at anyone, but as for me, I’m on a different mission and purpose.I also just feel like the world already has too much of that going on. This visi…"

"Anti-cruelty societies should be encouraged. The progress of science has suffered little by their existence, and humanity has gained much."