Quotes About Humanity

No one stays good in this world.

Science debased to the end of spreading death and of enslaving humanity, or to the end of procuring newer and newer sensations, a life spent in the whirlpool of fleeting pleasures, varied, subtle, and new, and in the worship of the almighty dollar is what most of us tend to call progress. We live more for the body than for the soul. Our body is our soul; our body is our highest Brahman.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Studies are one thing, but then there's just the way bonobos make you feel. They're so "almost-human" on so many levels that science doesn't even know how to test yet. Just look into any bonobo's big brown eyes, and you may well feel like you're connecting with a living version of the Missing Link.

It was easy to see that I was made up of exactly the same basic material as the people who built the Golden Gate Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, heart, blood, bone and dreams. And desire too.

I got the impression there was somebody home behind each set of eyes, and the effect was surreal.

If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ISIS posts its many crimes on social media for global distribution with seemingly no thoughts for the consequences.

No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.

I believe in being good to people and doing social work.

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

Societal good comes first for me.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.