Quotes About Humanity

Human evolution has ceased because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity.

No species can withstand all the infinite factors to which it can be exposed. Homo sapiens is closer to mass death than other species of the same geographical distribution, largely because we hunt it ourselves.

Optimism about the survival of our species may be a summary of all the things we have refined, but we hardly see any difference between the things that can actually move humanity forward and those that give the impression that we as a species are evolving.

There is equality before God and there is equality here on earth. There is natural equality and there is the kind of equality that human society creates.

Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener.

As Plato wrote long ago, the only people who will no longer see war are the dead. Which, of course, is precisely why we need to understand it as best we can.

Calling for an end to the cold war, he said that "in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we share this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Well, let them see that gunfights are squalid, messy things, he thought; they should know that human bodies like Nancy's are thin and vulnerable bags of skin that pour out blood when pierced.

Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)

Unlike the huge majority of the current generation in the West, the men on both sides at Dien Bien Phu did not live at a time or in places where they enjoyed the luxury of disregarding [that war is what human beings do]; and we, who are lifelong civilians, have not earned the right to sit in judgement over them.

It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.' – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.' – Proverbs, 28:20 'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!' – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.

Tenemos que librarnos de la idea de que somos una especie agresiva por naturaleza que no sabe evitar la guerra.

If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

No one can obtain this grace without putting on perfect light and becoming perfect light. Whoever puts on light will enter [the place of rest]. This is perfect [light, and] we [must] become [perfect humans] before we leave [the world].

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who – with their paints and pencils, their clays and chisels – created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to 'priceless masterpieces'. It is even more about the generations of humankind who have used, interpreted, argued over and given meaning to those images.

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.