Quotes About Humanity

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

If you say to people, 'I'm off to Papa New Guinea,' you'll often get a bad reaction - usually from people who've never been there. There's this fear of the unknown. And 99% of the time, you end up surprised - it rekindles your faith in humanity.

All over the world, we're finding out that, you know, whether it's Egypt or Syria or Central America, what satellites are showing is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of previously unknown settlements all over the world, and what archaeology does, it helps us to understand this common humanity that we have.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

The harder we push forward into the unknown the more it intensifies the reflection of humanity. That's what I really love about 'Star Trek.'

The vision of NASA is to reveal the unknown for the benefit of all humankind.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.