The Transhumanism Handbook Quotes

“Everyone is using science and technology to enhance or to alter our body chemistry in order to stay healthy and be more in control of our lives. We are all transhumanists to varying degrees.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“J. Robert Oppenheimer observed people’s reaction to the use of nuclear weapons and he said, “A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” If we keep silent and sit on the sidelines instead of speaking up and marching forward, human suffering will continue and inevitably escalate.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Direct democracy benefits everyone as long as it does not drown out minority voices.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Whichever form of government that democracy will create in the future, the great American experiment will go down in history as the freest and the bravest in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Without collaboration and synergy among various communities and socioeconomic groups, democracy will eventually fail as it “wastes exhausts and murders itself,” in the words of America’s founding father John Adams.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Transhumanism will save democracy from its demise.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“The Transhumanist Party offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Technological singularity is inevitable given the human nature to discover, create, and change the world that we live in.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Whatever fortune or misfortune awaits in the subsequent reincarnations, a purgatory by definition does not last forever. We will be forced to either go backward to the Amish way of life devoid of technology or move forward to a transhumanist world embracing technology.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Ignorance and apathy will eventually lead to the annihilation of humanity if left unchecked.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“The Transhumanist Party aims to motivate and mobilize both female and male scientists and engineers to take on additional responsibilities as rational politicians. It does not mean replacing democracy with technocracy. It means that our government needs help in making the right policies and investing in science, health, and technology for the improvement of the human condition and the long-term survival of the human race.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“All living things are recycled.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Had the early cavemen fought with atomic bombs instead of rocks and cattle bone clubs, the human species would have been extinct eons ago. With great power comes great responsibility.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“To err is human, whether we are religious, atheist, or agnostic.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Had Albert Einstein accepted the Israeli cabinet’s offer to become the country’s President in 1952, the Middle East would have been a very different place today because of Einstein’s commitment to pacifism.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook