Quotes About Humankind

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

We're so obsessed with assuring our own perpetuity that our goals seldom coincide with what would be good for humankind

I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.

Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves.

Nature does not teach its creatures to control their appetites except by the harshest of lessons—epidemics, mass death, extinctions. Nothing would be more natural than for humankind to burden the environment to the extent that it was rendered unfit for human life. Nature in that event would not be the loser, nor would it disturb her laws in the least—operating as it has always done, natural selection would unceremoniously do us in.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Hay un geocentrismo práctico en nuestra vida diaria. Todavía hablamos del Sol que sale y se pone, en lugar de hablar de una Tierra que gira. Todavía pensamos en un universo organizado para nuestro beneficio y poblado tan sólo por nosotros. La exploración del espacio, en este sentido, nos hará ser un poco más humildes.

We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.

Humankind is immortal, and what we are doing now is learning our lessons. We are all in school. It is so simple if you can believe in immortality.

Humankind is immortal, and what we are doing now is learning our lessons. We are all in school. It is so simple if you can believe in immortality. "If a part of humankind is eternal, and there is much evidence and history to think so, then why are we doing such bad things to ourselves?

Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as a gift for the people he had made, so they could survive. So Prometheus was a thief.

That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.

Our immortal blood, while not so potent as to grant immortality to humankind can, if imbibed on a regular basis, at least double their lifespan.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

Everything is preplanned, a fact that might not upset humankind as much if they were let in on the secret,

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

The first man was not a man, Don Javier tells me, entangled in deep laughter. The first man was a woman...

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The will of God here is not proper conduct in specific situations; it is the redemptive purpose of God for humankind. "God's will is that one should put his whole being at God's disposal. In this total 'belonging' to him he is to apply himself to what is good."57