Quotes About Humanity

You had to suffer first, before you could connect, before you could see we are all just human, irrespective of race, colour, creed.

Yes, we are all the same under the skin, and human beings, but why is being human defined from a White, Western perspective?

When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would lead to immeasurable suffering but would also, and equally inevitably, produce new languages all over the world – languages that ironically, in the very midst of man's inhumanity to man, demonstrated the essential unity of humanity.

I love you all, even those I don't particularly like. That's you, Beryl.

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

The only person with whom he'd interacted on any sort of deeper level was Valkyrie Cain – but he still had to work out if she was a good example of a functioning human being.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.