Quotes About Humanity

No man is an island,' John Donne wrote more than three and a half centuries ago. 'Every man is a piece of the continent.' The United States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic to the Equator. 'I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

No American must be allowed to die because he cannot afford to live.

humans have a profound ability both to cooperate and nurture and to shun others and fight.8 In our advanced technological age, with the capacity of our weapons to end human life, our ability to master our baser emotions and channel them toward constructive and cooperative outcomes will provide the basis for our survival.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. That, in a nutshell, is how we have lurched into the early twenty-first century."9

our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

E. O. Wilson has summarized it in his book The Social Conquest of Earth, we exist with a bizarre combination of "Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

The article...It's theme was that computers are the first technological invention in history that effect every aspect of human life, from psychological to entertainment to intelligence to material comfort to evil, and that, because of this, humans and machines will continue to grow closer together. (Article 'Life In The Blue Nowhere') From The Blue Nowhere.

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

This, Tolstoy says, is our human predicament: we're the man clutching the branch. Death awaits us. There is no escape. And so we distract ourselves by licking whatever drops of honey come within our reach.

He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.

Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.

We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

le monde est émotion à l'état pur, allant et venant entre ses créatures.

For a long time the gods had been in close contact with humanity. Then they became disgusted, or discouraged, and they removed themselves. But maybe they would come back again, approach the stray soul who was still curious.

Acts like these—simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving—held life together.

A tragédia se tornou difusa e universalizada.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We went outside with our hair wet in the hopes of catching flu ourselves so that we might share their delirium.

As the long minutes of radio silence began, the three astronauts were disconnected from the rest of humanity in a way that no one ever had been before.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed" (17)

Paul had often told her that humanity's most precious commodity was time—"Not love," he had emphasized, "not because it's less important, but because you can run out of time, while love can be endlessly replenished"—

When I die, I don't much care if anyone remembers my name. What matters to me is if people's lives are better, and our world is a kinder place because of the work I've done.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

The notion that the underground homeless people are "irretrievable" is refuted by their hope and caring for one another, which reaches far beyond the harsh environment in which they live. I know many people who attest to it. Theirs is a strange and foreign world, but it is very near and largely of our making.