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Quotes About Humanity

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
~ Jeremy Gilley
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.
~ Allan Bloom
Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours.
~ Sharan Burrow
I wanted to make enzymes that would solve human problems, not just problems for a cell that makes them.
~ Frances Arnold
A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.
~ Biz Stone
There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.
~ Geoff Stults
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
~ Edward Hirsch
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.
~ Charles Best
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
~ Richard Eyre
Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.
~ Joe Lonsdale
The Somali people deserve the kind of life we have here in the United States.
~ Michael Caputo
The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
~ K'naan
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
~ Amanda Lindhout
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
~ Desmond Tutu
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
~ Bette Davis
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
~ Jane Goodall
Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.
~ Michael T. Weiss
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.
~ Rita Ora
I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.
~ Adam Conover
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
~ Terry Eagleton