Human values
More than machinery, we need humanity
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
- Topics : Culture of peace, Fraternity, Happiness, Living together in harmony, Humanity, Human values, Kindness
- Author : CHAPLIN Charlie
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Human beings are like that
I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white, we all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another."
- Topics : Hate, Happiness, Goodness, Golden rule of reciprocity, Human values, Inclusion, Inclusive skills, Intercultural skills, Caring kindness, Peace
- Author : CHAPLIN Charlie
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Ubuntu
The belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.
Source: Ubuntu Documentation Team, retrieved 2017.
- Topics : Attitudes, Belonging, Human consciousness, Culture of peace, Ethics, Human values, Humanity, Living together, Fraternity
- Definition
Governance and philosophy
In ancient times across Greece, China, India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, philosophy and politics were allies. Philosophical inquiry defined the polis and shaped political discourse. No king saw fit to rule without wise philosophers to counsel him; indeed, the ideal king was often himself a philosopher, in addition to being a spiritual guide and artist or poet...
- Topics : Education, Ethics, Human values, Political power, Wisdom
- Author : MANI Rama (Dr.)
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Genocide and cultural ethnocide
Genocide is preceded by cultural ethnocide, or the gradual and deliberate erosion and manipulation of cultural values and practices by political authorities. The dissolution of this cultural foundation (...) makes people incapable of protecting themselves and their communities from the descent into the abyss of mass atrocities; it allows them to be manipulated to commit execrable acts counter to their own time-tested values and traditions.
- Topics : Conflict prevention, Ethics, Human values, Humanity, Political power, Unacceptable violence
- Author : MANI Rama (Dr.)
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Universal values
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Topics : Goodness, Human values, Universal values
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Search notice
I have a big problem. I cannot find where I lost my human values. Can you help me?
Source: Message received on sept. 12 2008 from an Internet user via the Graines de Paix website.
- Topics : Human values
- Humor
