Quotes About Humanity

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.