
— Richard Dawkins, buch The Selfish Gene
Quelle: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
— Richard Dawkins, buch The Selfish Gene
Quelle: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
— Timothy M. Dolan American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church 1950
Cardinal Dolan on the ‘Culture of Death’: ‘Isolated, Chic Left’ in Denial About Growing Pro-Life Support in America http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/cardinal-dolan-culture-death-isolated-chic-left-denial-growing-pro-life-support-america/ (January 26 2017)
— George Boole English mathematician, philosopher and logician 1815 - 1864
George Boole (1854), "Address at Cork" as cited in: R. H. Hutton, " Professor Boole http://books.google.com/books?id=pfMEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165," (1866), p. 165; Also cited in: Boole, George. Studies in Logic and Probability. 2002. Courier Dover Publications. p. 451
1850s
Kontext: Perhaps it is in the thought that there does exist an Intelligence and Will superior to our own,—that the evolution of the destinies of our species is not solely the product either of human waywardness or of human wisdom; perhaps, I say, it is in this thought, that the conception of humanity attains its truest dignity. When, therefore, I use this term, I would be understood to mean by it the human race, viewed in that mutual connexion and dependence which has been established, as I firmly believe, for the accomplishment of a purpose of the Divine mind... One eminent instance of that connexion and dependence to which I have referred is to be seen in the progression of the arts and sciences. Each generation as it passes away bequeaths to its successor not only its material works in stone and marble, in brass and iron, but also the truths which it has won, and the ideas which it has learned to conceive; its art, literature, science, and, to some extent, its spirit and morality. This perpetual transmission of the light of knowledge and civilisation has been compared to those torch-races of antiquity in which a lighted brand was transmitted from one runner to another until it reached the final goal. Thus, it has been said, do generations succeed each other, borrowing and conveying light, receiving the principles of knowledge, testing their truth, enlarging their application, adding to their number, and then transmitting them forward to coming generations
„Human evolution should be humane evolution.“
— Lydia Canaan Lebanese singer-songwriter
From Humane Evolution http://www.quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/the-love-bird-from-the-mountains-of-lebanon/, a speech delivered at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, March 13, 2015
— Robert P. George American legal scholar 1955
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/941035451904856064 (13 December 2017)
2017
— Alan Keyes American politician 1950
Virginia high school appearance, February 28, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_02_28virginia.htm.
2000
— Dan Flores American historian 1948
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)
— Ron Paul American politician and physician 1935
The American View, August 25, 2007 http://theamericanview.com/index.php?id=898
2000s, 2006-2009
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Statement to German anti-Nazi diplomat and author Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein around 1941, as quoted in his book Towards the Further Shore : An Autobiography (1968)
Attributed in posthumous publications
„I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others.“
— Ann Coulter author, political commentator 1961
"49 Million to Five" (3 June 2009).
2009
Kontext: I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
— Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016
The Ageless Wisdom, An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (1996)
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/311774201012948992 (13 March 2013)
Twitter
— Tenzin Gyatso spiritual leader of Tibet 1935
"Kindness and Compassion" p. 47.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
— Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
„Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.“
— Dan Simmons, buch Hyperion
Quelle: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Quelle: Hyperion
Kontext: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
„The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.“
— Franz Kafka, buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen
6
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Kontext: The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
— Paul Goodman, buch Growing Up Absurd
Quelle: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 6.
„Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, buch Dance with the Devil
Quelle: Dance with the Devil
— Theodosius Dobzhansky geneticist and evolutionary biologist 1900 - 1975
In a letter to J. Kunamoto, 1972.