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Quotes About Humanity

The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something 'good enough' had long since been accepted by our race.
~ E.M. Forster
Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men. A friend explains himself; the earth is explicable — from her we came, and we must return to her. But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road or Liverpool Street in the morning — the city inhaling — or the same thoroughfares in the evening — the city exhaling her exhausted air?
~ E.M. Forster
The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.
~ E.O. Wilson
We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm freedom and dignity
~ E.O. Wilson
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.
~ E.O. Wilson
Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …
~ E.R. Braithwaite
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
~ E.W. Howe
One person's Utopia usually means another person's hell. We live in a state of uncertainty, not just in Northern Ireland, but by virtue of being human.
~ Eamon Collins
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
~ Eamon de Valera
I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.
~ Earl Lovelace
And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all this, the great, blind, wistful soul of mankind, which had been here before he was born and would be here when he was dead--still groping, yearning, struggling upward, on and on--to something distant as the sun. And still would he be part of it all, through the eager lives of his children.
~ Earnest Poole
Not kings and lords, but nations!Not thrones and crowns, but men!
~ Ebenezer Elliott
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.
~ Eberhard Arnold
From Black to White and all colors and cultures in between...Love Is Universal.
~ Eboni Snoe
Ah! Tanr?lar, kendi hikayesini yazabilen ölümlüleri e?itleri gibi severler.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Oysa ben hikayesini ilk kez anlat?rken dikkate al?nmayan insanlar?n aniden ölebilece?inden korkar?m.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Çünkü burada insanlar bir yanl??l?k gibi ölüveriyor. Sen bir yanl??l?k olamayacak kadar güzelsin
~ Ece Temelkuran
Tanr?'y?, hepimizi seven, sevimli bir dede olarak tasavvur etmek varken niye asab? bozuk, ürkütücü, sürekli bizi izleyen bir ahlak bekçisi olarak hayal ederler? Bu onlar? sadece mutsuz ederken...
~ Ece Temelkuran
?nsan, yaras? yaras?na denk geleni seviyor demek ki...
~ Ece Temelkuran
the industry found no shortage of ambitious collaborations eager to show what humans are capable of when shame and mercy are removed from the list of ground rules.
~ Ece Temelkuran
In a world where more people are talking, but fewer are being heard, they wanted to tell the rest of humanity, through their bodies, that regardless of our differences we can, and indeed must, come together to find collective answers to our age of disintegration, otherwise everything will fall apart.
~ Ece Temelkuran
It's a funny fact about humanity: fear and pain, rather than courage and joy, are diminished when they are shared
~ Ece Temelkuran
I had a philosophy instructor at the U of I say that the only question that mattered in all of philosophy was Verlaine's "Why are we born to suffer and die?
~ Ed Gorman
It is not enough for us to read this portion of the Bible and picture the Apostles Paul and Peter along with the church simply doing their best to be nice people. These letters reveal the subversive nature of God's kingdom at work among the empires of humanity. God set in motion a rebellion against the rebellions of men.
~ Ed Stetzer