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Quotes About Humanity

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
~ Wendell Berry
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
~ Werner Herzog
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
~ William Safire
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
~ William Vickrey
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
What a piece of work is man!
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
I love not man the less but nature more.
~ Lord Byron
All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.
~ Criss Jami
Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.
~ Munia Khan
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
~ Peter Clines, 14
Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
~ Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
~ C. JoyBell C.
Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
~ Jonas Eriksson
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
~ Fredrik Backman, Beartown
No matter how weird we all are, were still human.
~ Mekiah Johnson
oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.
~ Ava, You Are Safe Here.
Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
~ Rick Yancey, The Last Star
Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.
~ Abhijit Naskar