Quotes About Humanity

singularity, a term that von Neumann coined and the futurist Ray Kurzweil and the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge popularized, which is sometimes used to describe the moment when computers are not only smarter than humans but also can design themselves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals.

Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho más importante que esforzarse en averiguar qué es lo que quieren hacer

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being

Looking back at a century that will be remembered for its willingness to break classical bonds, and looking ahead to an era that seeks to nurture the creativity needed for scientific innovation, one person stands out as a paramount icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?

people should consider themselves citizens of the world.

No sean tan severos conmigo —les respondió a los Born—. Todo el mundo debe, de vez en cuando, hacer un sacrificio ante el altar de la estupidez, a fin de agradar al dios de la humanidad. Y yo lo he hecho a fondo con mi artículo.

Human society first formed itself with the aid of oral speech, becoming literate very late in its history, and at first only in certain groups. Homo sapiens has been in existence for between 30,000 and 50,000 years. The earliest script dates from only 6000 years ago.

The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.—A 39.

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch in with strangers and form a neighborhood.

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)

But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)

Why did you need to see my ID?" "This is an exclusive service, Mr. Orlean," she said with no chink of humanity in her face. "And we like to know exactly who it is we're dealing with." "Oh," I said. "So it wasn't because of my clothes or my race?" "The lower races come in all colors, Mr. Orlean. And none of them get back here.

The question is,' John added, 'if a person inside a culture has no knowledge of his place in the unfolding of that culture, or in the history of any other people, and if no one else among either the oppressors or the oppressed has that knowledge, can that person be said to be alive? Indeed on what plane could he possibly exist except as chattel where he is a slave or not?

I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.

Perhaps ideological competition is one of the forms of international competition that must be discarded if humanity is to survive. President Richard Nixon's foreign policy of détente with the Soviet Union and opening to Maoist China was based on the belief that the United States did not have the ability to produce a global liberal order

Mientras la ambición y las ansias de poder gobiernen el corazón de algunos hombres, no habrá paz duradera en la tierra. La guerra, por desgracia, es condición humana.

E' fin troppo veroche i nostri vizi ci seducono con la bellezza delle forme esteriori, come la bellezza dei demoni, che i superstiziosi ci rappresentano a congiurare ai danni del genere umano; non si riesce a vederne la innata laidezza finchè non li stringiamo fra le braccia.