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Quotes About Humanity

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
I put my hand on the dark skin and felt the chill of centuries long gone. It was as if I had touched the Stone Age.
~ Unknown
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
~ Billy Graham
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
~ Howard Mumford Jones
No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
~ Unknown
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
~ Walker Percy
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
~ Rachel Carson
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
~ Josef Skvorecky
Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
~ Rita Rudner
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~ Albert Einstein
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
~ Erik Satie
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
~ H L Mencken
Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?
~ Unknown
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~ Chief Joseph
In the faces of men and women I see God.
~ Walt Whitman
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
~ Soren Kierkegaard