This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We believe that humanity stands at the threshold of its next great leap. However, our success in making this transition depends on our willingness to develop a greater vision and a clearer sense of responsibility for one another. Understanding and articulating the nature and dynamics of consciousness is key to achieving this new vision.
Consciousness | Humanity | Nature | Responsibility | Sense | Success | Understanding | Vision |
Raúl Juliá, aka Raul Rafael Carlos Julia y Arceley
Julian the Apostate - It is to the humanity in a man that we give, and not to his moral character.
P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri
All the progress humanity has made appears to be endangered by the very technological skills that humans have achieved. We live in an age in which the evils that humans inflict on others have reached unparalleled extremes of barbarism.
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and a man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Man | Reverence |
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Life | Life | Man |
Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity of wandering.
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Neither race nor environment, taken by itself, can be the positive factor which, within the last six thousand years, has shaken humanity out of its static repose on the level of primitive society and started it on the hazardous quest of civilization.
Civilization | Humanity | Race | Repose | Society | Society |
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Children | Genius | Humanity | Hunger | Life | Life | Money | Sense | War | World |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms ins not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Children | Genius | Humanity | Life | Life | Money | Sense | War | World |
War in its fairest form implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
Consideration | Desire | Doctrine | Humanity | Justice | Law | Public |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
The pact of Munich was a more fell blow to humanity than the atom bomb at Hiroshima. Suffocation of human freedom among a once free people, however quietly and peacefully accomplished, is more far-reaching in its implications and its effects on their future than the destruction of their homes, industrial centers and transportation facilities. Out of rubble heaps, willing hands can rebuild a better city; but out of freedom lost can stem only generations of hate and bitter struggle and brutal oppression.
Better | Freedom | Future | Hate | Humanity | Oppression | People | Struggle |
The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair’s breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster.
Faith | History | Humanity | Improvement | Peace | People | Promise | Rationality | Security | Success | Understanding |