Quotes About Humanity

The only sin is the sin of being born.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

The answer to how to engage with obesity, Cahnman said, was 'an agreement of mutual respect for the common humanity of each and every one of us'. Weight stigma, he pointed out, cannot be removed except by treating individuals with obesity as normal human beings – as intelligent and capable as anyone else – and removing any sense of moral shame about their condition.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

life L-- literally I -- in F -- foremost E -- end .....

most of the people need not be expect a sympathy but they want to accept their empathy ----- gentle

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they're about study and solitude, but because they're about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that's no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.

I'd rather have a bleeding heart than a frozen one, or perhaps no heart at all.

People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?

My father believes that everything is music," I said. "And when you pass on you become part of the tune." One improvisation amongst the millions and millions of melodies that create the symphony of everything. My dad basically believes that your life is your one chance at a solo—so it better be a good one. Mind you, he also thinks that Miles Davis was the Second Coming and most of the world's woes are due to humanity's failure to recognise him as such.

It was a poem of volume and geometry without humanity—a little bit of Swiss megalomania come to the North. As Bev says, I have views about the International Style.

Just what was Princeton working on in Bambleweeny that made him think the Singularity—aka the nerd rapture, aka the moment when artificial intelligence passed humanity and accelerated away into an unknowable future—was arriving a couple of decades ahead of when its other acolytes and prophets proclaimed it would?

at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation it was important to make a distinction between Artificial General Intelligence and ordinary AI. AGI being the sort that was self-aware enough to pass the Turing test and ask difficult philosophical questions before going "Daisy-Daisy" and trying to wipe out humanity, while ordinary AI mainly tried to sell you books on Amazon.

You can't hate a man you understand.

Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.