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Quotes About Humanity

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.
~ Carl Sagan
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
~ J. B. Priestley
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
~ Albert Einstein
With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.
~ Walter Trout
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
~ Jaron Lanier
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
~ David Bohm
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
~ Freeman Dyson
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
People first. Technology second.
~ Biz Stone
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
~ Sarah McLachlan
The future of marketing is not about technology
~ Brian Solis
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.
~ Paul Farmer
However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!
~ Narendra Modi
I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.
~ Tod Machover
Technology changes, but people stay the same.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
~ H. L. Mencken
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
~ Martin Heidegger
Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other.
~ Michael Dertouzos
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.
~ Riley Cavanaugh
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even with our differences There is a place we're all connected Each of us can find each other's light, There's so much to be thankful for.
~ Josh Groban