Quotes About Humanity

If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them. And killing is very important. Better to see them as monsters.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

There was a time before television, before motion pictures, before radio, before books. The greatest part of human existence was spent in such a time. Over the dying embers of the campfire, on a moonless night, we watched the stars.

We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.

Para pequenas criaturas como nós, a imensidão é suportável apenas através do amor.

Al parecer anhelamos un privilegio, merecido no por nuestros esfuerzos, sino por nacimiento, digamos que por el mero hecho de ser humanos y de haber nacido en la Tierra. Podríamos llamarla la noción antropocéntrica, <>. Está noción alcanza su culminación en la idea de que fuimos creados a imagen y semejanza de Dios: <> El filósofo griego del siglo VI a. J.C. Jenófanes comprendió la arrogancia de esta perspectiva: <

El universo no fue hecho a medida del hombre; tampoco le es hostil: es indiferente.

Cuando dirigimos nuestra vista al espacio vemos reflejadas en él las múltiples variedades de nuestra naturaleza.

Longevity is perhaps the best single measure of the physical quality of life. (If you're dead, there's little you can do to be happy.) This is a precious offering from science to humanity -nothing less than the gift of life.

La causa de la miseria humana evitable no suele ser tanto la estupidez como la ignorancia, particularmente la ignorancia de nosotros mismos.

If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Human

We humans might have evolved too far. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

La escritura es quizás la mayor invención humana. Une a gente que nunca se conoció. Ciudadanos de épocas distantes. Los libros rompen las cadenas del tiempo. Un libro es la prueba de que los humanos son capaces de hacer magia

Para criaturas pequenas como nós, a vastidão só é suportável por meio do amor.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.

There is only one child in the world and the Child's name is All Children.

Nothing human disgusts me . . . unless it's cruel, violent. (spoken by the character Hannah Jelkes)

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts... Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life.