Quotes About Humanity

If rights are good enough for you, then they are good enough for everyone else.

It never occurred to Brown that a genocide comparable to Rwanda had taken place in Darfur in western Sudan in 2003, and the wired world had done nothing to stop it.

Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland

It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.

T]he upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease." —NICK BILTON, tech columnist, The New York Times

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart...

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Love, not hate, is the burden we carry. But that fact makes it no lighter.

All men have flaws, it's what makes them men. The ability to see and mitigate one's own flaws is a measure of a man's greatness.

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

Sacrifice is the movement of violent liberation from servility, the collapse of transcendence. Inhibiting the sacrificial relapse of isolated being is the broad utilitarianism inherent to humanity, correlated with a profane delimitation from ferocious nature that finds its formula in theology. In its profane aspect, religion is martialled under a conception of God; the final guarantor of persistent being, the submission of (ruinous) time to reason, and thus the ultimate principle of utility.

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.

No." Her eyes were like chips of stone. "He died because the Telestines have enslaved us. He died for humanity." He

Humans are tribalistic hypocrites who judge their enemies by their actions but themselves by their intentions.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

These people were utterly human. But what was human? Human was not just family dinners, human was also the Inquisitions of Philip, the extermination of the Mayans, the terrible Reconstruction of the Community. Human meant cruelty as well as love, human was protecting one's own at the expense of others. Human also meant having the capacity to change.

Geordie Karp hurt people and manipulated them because they weren't real to him. He acted as if he were human, but he was a monster.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come.