Quotes About Humanity

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.