Anger & grief

Quotes on humanity

Anger is a demon. Anger leads us to commit all other sins. In the case of Vishwamitra, we know that all the good he acquired by tapas was nullified by this one evil, anger. The merit he had accumulated through tapas undertaken for thousands of years was all lost in a moment of anger.
Satya Sai Baba

Anger: An acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Seneca

I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and dis-figured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.
Anne Frank

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers
 
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Quotes on humanity




The earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.
K Tsiolkovsky, 1895

Man's creation began as a turbulence in a cloud of gas in infinite space and proceeded by condensation into a galaxy, stars, planets, and finally the seas and continents of the earth... So man is the creature of the cosmos, not of the earth; the earth is only his womb, his chrysalis perhaps.
Hamilton Webb, 1961

It may be that the venture into space is the product of biological determinism which impels us to explore a new environment when we are technologically ready.
Richard Lewis, 1968

We are not constrained by the limitations of our planet.... As children have to leave the security of family and home life to insure growth into mature adults, so also must humankind leave the security and familiarity of Earth to reach maturity and obtain the highest attainment possible.
Nichelle Nichols, 1981

Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, promising a revitalisation of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.
Buzz Aldrin, 1999


 
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