Quotes About Humanity

Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.

Some machine-y music is great, but you can apply any groove to any song now - there's literally a massive drop-down menu on most programs. And that's what takes the human being out of the process.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

Progressives really do see America as guilty of crimes against humanity, and to them, our 'greatness' must be abandoned to atone for those crimes.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.