Quotes About Humanity

When I imagine what I'm capable of achieving, I don't reference the professions of ancestors reported to me in a genealogy kit. Instead, I look to all humans who have ever lived. We are one family. We are one race. The human race. Although I rather think we're all just next of kin.

Evidence shows that nature doesn't actually care about our health or longevity. We're equipped by natural instincts to sift between some of what might harm us and some of what may bring us comfort. Yet there is no hint from space that anyone or anything in the universe will arrive to save us from Earth, or from ourselves. It is we alone who care about us.

Humans, though, have managed to double the carbon dioxide level in less than two centuries—a hundred times faster than it would happen in nature without humanity's help.

Views of Earth from space transform global perspectives for the better, I would say. But evaluating and judging individual humans from a distance hardly ever ends well. The brush strokes with which we paint and characterize the views of others tend to be broad and without nuance, leaving us susceptible to bigotry and prejudice.

If the gridiron of a football field were a timeline of the universe, with the Big Bang at one end and this moment at the other, then all of human recorded history would span the thickness of a blade of grass in the end zone.

If you can't have ownership, no one's going to go out there and extract the materials, and the loser is humanity.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines…every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

If humans are intelligent, so is the rest of Nature. Native peoples have always said this. The human species shows its decreasing ability to communicate--both internally and externally--by its failure to recognize this intelligence. In this sense, our immune failures are one more example of not having ears (receptors) to hear the voice of Nature with compassion.

A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.

And just when you'd think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care. "I

The first person we saw when we entered the building was Muhammad Ali, perhaps a perfect symbol for the decade to come - a former powerhouse battling a degenerative disease.

I felt the heat of her body and was reminded of how much I love human contact. Pets like to be petted. It isn't sexual when a dog or cat begs for physical affection. People are the same way: we need touch. But we're so sexually screwed up and obsessed that we get nervous and uncomfortable when another person touches us.

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

We are so stricken We are so stricken that we think we're dying when the street casts an evil word at us. The street does not know it, but it cannot stand such a weight; it is not used to seeing a Vesuvius of pain break out. Its memories of primeval times are obliterated, since the light became artificial and angels only play with birds and flowers or smile in a child's dream

Geniuses don't seem to have much tolerance for people who annoy them, or hinder them, and they tend to think they are not subject to the same rules of behavior as the mass of humanity. They are often unhappy and impatient people, and they can also be sociopaths, and sometimes psychopaths who

a place where the worst elements of humanity had defeated civilization.

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.