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Quotes About Humanity

Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human beings—we deprive other people of their ability to control their own outcomes and even create a culture where people are afraid to do the right thing because of fear of punishment, failure, or jeopardizing their livelihood. This
~ Gene Kim
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~ Gene Roddenberry
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities. Gene Roddenberry
~ Gene Roddenberry
In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate.
~ Gene Roddenberry
People don't want other people to be people.
~ Gene Wolfe
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
~ Gene Wolfe
I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
~ Gene Wolfe
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
~ General Omar Bradley
There's too many men too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go round
~ Genesis
Is anyone up there?" [...] The natural human response was to shout, No! Which said something about humanity.
~ Genevieve Cogman
How far could a person change and still remain human?
~ Genevieve Cogman
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
~ Geof Greenleaf
decided I was going to be a Person Who Chooses To Be Kind To Others At All Times, No Matter What.
~ Geoff Rodkey
When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.
~ Geoff Tabin
For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mousKaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
However, for Hardy the possibility of poetry's traditional function of transcendence remains, but in a more limited form. In Hardy's work the poet transcends himself towards humanity, affirming the central values of loving-kindness and fellowship.
~ Geoffrey Harvey
Recall the cold Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn, Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet, Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.
~ Geoffrey Hill
Marie - Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim iÅŸte ben! B?çaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin can? cehenneme, erkek, diÅŸi!
~ Georg Buchner
Woyzeck - Gidiyorum ben, herşey umulur. İnsan! Her şey umulur.
~ Georg Buchner
MARIE [Alone, after apause.] Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.
~ Georg Buchner
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg