Quotes About Humanity

You share a birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

Improving upon nature is the very essence of plant breeding, and so it goes to the heart of one of the central debates of the human condition: the relationship between humanity and nature and the degree to which the human race has a right (or indeed a responsibility) to change plant life for its own ends.

Because in the end it was just about people: mothers, fathers, friends, foes, sisters, brothers, children born and not yet born, sons, and daughters; people from all over the United States and then all over the globe, whose lives would never be the same. Because the world changed that day, slowly and then all at once.

Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How can we serve you?

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPI?TE]

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: "History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul."3

So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it.

Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.