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Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

— Michael Leunig

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

— Khaled Hosseini

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

— Alain Ducasse

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

— Karen Horney

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.

— Thomas Woods

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

— Thabo Mbeki

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

— Shari Arison

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

— John Desmond Bernal

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

— Daisaku Ikeda

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

— Felix Adler