Quotes About Humankind

The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges. This doesn't mean they're in denial. Rather, it testifies to the remarkable ability of humankind to adapt, to seek meaning and kinship when confronted with adversity.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all of humankind.

Our God is a language-using God; he has spoken literal truth to humankind.41 And if God created people for the purpose of fellowship with him, it is fair to assume that he would have created them with the capacity both to comprehend God's literal truth coming to them ab extra and in turn to respond verbally with no loss or distortion of the truth in the verbal interchange (this capacity surely being an aspect of humanity's image-bearing character).

My love of humankind will be agreeably balanced with mercantile rationality on the scales of salesmanship.

The core reality of the fairy as postmortem being for deceased humans (or other breathing creatures in our world) has been laid bare. When we bring to mind the intimate overlap and interchange that the Fairy-world or spirit-world has with the ordinary world of experience, we must remember that fairy-beings can just as easily and accurately be described as the pre-natal beings of humankind or other breathing creatures.

There was nothing but the night and the fire and the ancient, lasting story of good versus evil, of life and death hanging in the balance. It was a thread woven through all of humankind: this need for story to explain the unexplainable, to comfort the hurting, to promise that no one was alone.

If one purges all subsequent additions from the original teachings of the Prophets and Christianity, especially those of the priests, one is left with a doctrine that is capable of curing all the social ills of humankind. Statement

Don't call us saints, we don't want to be dismissed that easily.

I am increasingly convinced that humankind's best future lies within the power of the imagination, with knowledge following closely in step.

You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with. I'm prone to a certain skepticism about people's motives and character, and this critical appraisal can harden into enduringly harsh judgment.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine.

But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the Earth is spared, only justice to every living thing (and everything is alive) will save humankind Essay: Only Justice Can Stop a Curse

the power to carry out God's will must come from the inspiration and energy that are found in the emotion, love-love that embraces God and humankind. We serve and appreciate both.

May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind.

It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage.

Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.

They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered.

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.