Quotes about Humankind

My soul is a sanctuary of enlightenment where the enhancing flow of positive energy communicates a peaceful message of love. Beauty and joy embraces my spirit as i savour and celebrate the glory of all living things. I have found empowerment through spirituality and it is my desire to use that power to radiate goodness and contribute wisdom, wellness and bliss to all humankind

If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy.  Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?

Religion is not God. It is merely humankind's attempt to understand God.

The three glues that hold humankind together are the courage of women, the compassion of men and the laughter of children.

Now this Law or Rule about Right and Wrong used to be called the Law of Nature.  Nowadays, when we talk of the 'laws of nature' we usually mean things like gravitation, or heredity, or the laws of chemistry.  But when the older thinkers called the Law of Right and Wrong the 'Law of Nature', they really meant the Law of Human Nature. The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation, and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law--with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey it.

Imagination is the jet fuel that uplifts humankind.

When we say Mitakuye Oyasin - "All Our Relations" 
 But the word Mitakuye means relations and Oyasin means more than family, more than a Nation, more than all of humankind. Everything that has a spirit.

Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.