Quotes About Humanity

Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

After thirty thousand years, warfare had come full circle. The sheer scale of humanity's conflicts disregarded the corrupt reliance on automation as seen in the Dark Age of Technology. Mankind was back down to swords beating against shields and men entrenched with their rifles, where the gods of myth were Titan war machines and Baneblade tanks.

There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I'd often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men's ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

The horde had the numbers to bring about the war's end, while the defenders only possessed the numbers to delay it – but the losses were going to be grotesque. Ulienne didn't want to die for the Emperor's stubbornness. She wanted to live, to see the Warmaster's ambitions come to fruition. She wanted the Imperium that Horus had promised. An empire for eternity. A kingdom of humanity that would never fall.

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Pour exciter le cheval, il faut exciter la mouche ; pour exciter la mouche, il faut exciter toutes les autres mouches, cercle vicieux comme hypothèse universelle, que l'humanité n'a jamais transgressé.

You should be able to do anything a human being can do (from my late father's wisdom).

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Helpless creatures ought, on the contrary, to be treated as sacred trusts, whether they are orphans, or dependants, or creatures of any kind unable to assert themselves.

Itulah dunia Gus Miek yang sebenarnya, yang ditinggalkannya untuk beberapa bulan mungkin hanya sebagai sebuah kelengkapan lakonnya yang panjang. Agar ia tetap masih menjadi manusia, bukan malaikat.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings… The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.