Quotes About Humanity

We enjoy the unique faculty of being able to act against natural selection. The problem is that, in order to do this, we must actively oppose some of our key genetic traits, surmount our own nature.

Par cette fable, Schopenhauer explique que le besoin de société pousse les hommes les uns vers les autres mais que leur caractère repoussant et leurs insupportables défauts les dispersent de nouveau, jusqu'à ce qu'ils trouvent enfin la bonne distance moyenne.

Der Baum wird nie an gebrochenem Herzen sterben und das Gras nie seinen Verstand verlieren. Von außen droht ihnen jede mögliche Gefahr, von innen her aber sind sie gefeit. Sie fallen sich nicht selbst in den Rücken, wie der Mensch mit seinem Geist und ersparen uns damit das wiederholte Schauspiel unseres eigenen zweideutigen Lebens.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Another example of how connected we all are, and are meant to be, is the story of the "elephant whisperer," the late Lawrence Anthony. He was a conservationist who saved the lives of countless elephants

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

corners of her eyes, and she squeezed them tight, mortified that she might have to explain—again—a crying jag. It had just been so long since she'd snuggled up to something this big, this warm, this human. "You smell better than Grimm," she said against Ryan's mouth. He drew back a little. "What?" She discovered her tears had dried up and

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

and the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas,

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

A pair of peasants must be saved even if we build an ark.

I love you, I love men and women, I love little children and all innocent things, I love, I feel I am love itself—how could I pick out a woman who would hate me so much!

Don't call humans rats—rats are superior.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

I was never an absolute male and I shall never be an absolute female. But whatever the value of percentages in the scale of sex determinants, there are no absolutes; even the most masculine or feminine person approximates only eighty percent of the possible total. There is no one hundred percent Adam or Eve.

If the hyperconnectedness of humanity is true, it would mean that everyone alive today—you, your neighbor, Vladimir Putin, and the emperor of Japan—could count the same Egyptian pharaoh, as well as everyone else alive at the time, as a distant grandparent.

If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having...a value conferring status.

Thus we find that the unconditioned condition of the goodness of anything is rational nature...To play this role, however, rational nature must itself be something of unconditional value--and end in itself.

La hambruna es el primer crimen de masas, y es muy difícil probarlo con certeza.

Cuál es el régimen político más inhumano? El que decreta el bien del hombre.

All people want to be touched. —Diana

but the stupefying realization that the paparazzi who chased her car into Paris's Alma tunnel did nothing to help her. "She was still very much alive in the backseat," Harry later said, "and those same people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her while she was dying. They just stood there and watched her die. I will never forgive them." William agreed.