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Quotes About Humanity

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
~ E. O. Wilson
Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.
~ Pico Iyer
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
~ George W. Romney
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
~ Frank Wolf
I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!
~ Nadiya Hussain
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
In one manner or the other, it still remains true that, even in the view of a mere biologist, the human epic resembles nothing so much as a way of the Cross.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro
~ Pierre Vilar
Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Liberty is the original condition of man; to renounce liberty is to renounce the nature of man: after that, how could we perform the acts of man?
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.
~ Piers Anthony
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.
~ Piers Anthony
Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?
~ Piers Anthony
Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.
~ Piet Hein
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
~ Pindar
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
~ Pindar
Creatures of a day! What is man?
~ Pindar
Il nemico è qui. Dentro le frontiere segnate dal capriccio e dalla bramosia di profitto. L'umanità che soffre e lavora, quella è la nostra patria. Il nemico, è l'oligarchia ladra che si ingozza del nostro sudore. Non ci ingannate più. ... Non mi ingannate più. E, in cuor mio, non vi perdono. Clément Duval.
~ Pino Cacucci
We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal.
~ Piotr Kropotkin
Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.
~ Piotr Lipi?ski
A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*
~ Plato