Quotes About Humanity

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.

We have to recognize that we're all one, we all come from the same place, we come from the same source.

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

You don't see any borders between countries from space. That's man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity's next great rendezvous with destiny out in space.

No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.

The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.

When I saw the Earth from above, personally, as a spacecraft operator, it certainly reinforced and drove home the fact that there's one place where we can live right now.

I want to look into the dark spaces in people's souls. At what happens to us when we go to the mountains.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

It's sad how people change from the best to the beast.