Quotes about humanity

Matthew Fox - Creativity

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food.We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be ama

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Stuart Wilde - Whispering Winds of Change

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Innovation is the heart of humanity.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

Yaganesh Derasari -

Solving Criminal case with wasting time on Internet ,And your Future Cases will Pending Untouched Till the End and you never realize that.

Alex Steffen -

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

David Livingstone Smith - and Exterminate Others

Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.

Martin J. Rees -

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

Arthur C. Clarke - 3001: The Final Odyssey

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Munindra Misra - Eddies of Life

2. Humanity & Peace - 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22] - 2The future of any of the countries,Does lie way above its people,And the future of humanity -On numerous BOMBS so ample.[23] - 2

Auliq Ice -

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

Auliq Ice -

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Yukito Kishiro - Vol. 3

Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Jack Cady -

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of others. The writer and the artist appeal to that humanity. For that reason, literature and art are the bones of civilization.

Ralph Ellison -

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien -

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the ‘language of Shakespeare’... sufficiently to realise the magnitude of the loss to humanity that the world-dominance of any one language now spoken would entail: no language has ever possessed but a small fraction of the varied excellences of human speech, and each language represents a different vision of life ...

Mark Cantrell - Silas Morlock

AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words, they fled to find solace and redemption in the dark places of the world.“They were exiled into darkness so their own light might one day return to illuminate the world. They went underground, literally and metaphorically, so that their haven became the hidden places far beneath the feet of their persecutors.“Thus was born the Incunabula: it was forged by fire and pe

Joseph Henry -

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improve the human mind, and give it new sources of power and enjoyment … narrow minds think nothing of importance but their own favorite pursuit, but liberal views exclude no branch of science or literature, for they all contribute to sweeten, to adorn, and

Alain de Botton -

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more

Alfred Nobel -

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth

Lisa C. Taylor -

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Allyson Giles -

Love never lies and it never tries, it's unafraid and heaven made.Keep the faith, surrender the time, just like a grape we need to ripen on the vine.Be like a fairy, constantly glow, leave a trail of love wherever you go.Do not try to make sense of this world. Do try to know yourself and to grow yourself while in it.The more you are, the more you have.Rather than make the best of a situation, make the best situation. Create, don't negate.Keep the dream alive and the heart open.Be your most glori

Abraham Verghese -

God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Robert G. Ingersoll - Some Mistakes of Moses

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of a Lion

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Glen Duncan - Talulla Rising

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Tim Gillespie -

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We are a blessing to each other.

Paul The Astronaut -

I do not know your woes, Humans, but I do know that they are abundant. Believe in each other, and stand together, and you will conquer them all.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked.

G. Campbell Morgan - Gospel According to Mark

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God created all people.

Stephanie Oakes - The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

Richard Bachman - Thinner

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Enrico Fermi -

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

Lewis Thomas -

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

Isaac Asimov -

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Albert Einstein - Man and His Gods

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a broadly conceived attempt to portray man's fear-induced animistic and mythic ideas with all their far-flung transformations and interrelations. It relates the impact of these phantasmagorias on human destiny and the causal relationships by which they have become crystallized into organized religi

C.P. Snow - Science and Government

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have that right.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -

Think Positively.Network well.Eat healthy.Work Smart.Stay Strong.Build faith.Worry less.Read more.Be happy.Volunteer freely.Relax often.Love always.Live eternallyand you will see doors open to your favor.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.

Adelaide Crapsey -

Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown?

Paul Gitwaza -

Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

The salvation of man is through love and in love

John Green -

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

Swami Dhyan Giten -

Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM The Gospels starts in a very beautiful way.The Bible is the book of the books. The meaning of the word "bible" is - the book.It is the most precious and beautiful document that humanity has. These statements are the most beautiful ever made.That is why it is called "The Testament", because Jesus has become the witness of God. While Buddha's words are refined and ph

H. Rider Haggard - She

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

Aberjhani - The River of Winged Dreams

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Anthony Liccione -

He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I have what takes to get the job done.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Miya Yamanouchi -

We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God is the Saviour of all men.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

Lemony Snicket - Shouldn't You Be in School?

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Alice McDermott - Child of My Heart

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Each man must make is own sacred journey.

Nenia Campbell - Cease and Desist

There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.

Debasish Mridha -

Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

Piper Payne - Breathing Black

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Widad Akreyi -

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN

Widad Akreyi -

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

Diet Eman - Things We Couldn't Say

You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma

Piper Payne - Breathing Black

If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.

Shakieb Orgunwall -

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each flaw they found exactly because of this familiarity and acquaintance with their very own symptoms. How else did they recognize them in you?

Bryant McGill -

The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.

Imam Ali bin abi Taleb -

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.

C. Kennedy Omorphi -

No one should have to go through life without forgiveness. It's essential

M.F. Moonzajer -

If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.

Paul Harding - Tinkers

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your souls means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.

Ariana Carruth -

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Never judge the life of another man.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We ought to love one another

Debasish Mridha -

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Be compassionate with all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Accept each other's fault with brotherly love.

Turcois Ominek -

We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

Arzum Uzun -

at first sight everyone seems like human.

Anna Jae -

Trust isn’t something you can just one day decide to have. Trust cannot be fabricated out of thin air, no matter how one’s will is set to it. Trust has to be earned. And there’s the tragedy of it, the dependence on the other, who is often not up for the challenge, poisoned as he is by the modern individualistic and time-is-money mindset. And thus trust is losing ground more and more until one day it will turn into something rare and obscure and this world has become a severly violent and lonely

Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave

This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Auliq Ice -

Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those who hate you.

LeeAnn Taylor -

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

Tom Giaquinto -

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

Paul Shepheard - How to Like Everything: A Utopia

Everything is emotional because hope is… When I talk to people I no longer see rational beings engaged in rational discourse, I see objects, emoting. It has made me such a deep materialist that I see everything as objects, people, dogs, trees, rocks- objects that burn with the animation of hope, each engaged in their own private miracle of being. And the things that people make, the buildings and machines, the paintings and the poems, are artificial miracles, which glow from the light borrowed f

hlbalcomb -

Our Higher Self: The part of us that is connected to nature and also humanity" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret

Prabhukrishna M -

The most beautiful of human things are born in the shadows and thrive there and are endangered by light

Elysse Poetis - The Mind of a Poetess

- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

Joseph Lewis - Atheism And Other Addresses

Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane.There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy.There are no bended knees in Atheism;No supplications, no prayers;No sacrificial redemptions;No 'divine' revelations;No washing in the blood of the lamb;No crusades, no massacres, no holy wars;No heaven, no hell, no purgatory;No silly rewards and no vindictive punishments;No christs, and no saviors;No devils, no ghosts and no gods.

Leland Dirks - Angelo's Journey: A Border Collie's Quest for Home

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.

Fulton J. Sheen - Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japanese, and Americans prayed right, they would all be praying for the same intention: Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. And what is that Will? The reign of Justice and Charity in the hearts of men. Through a prayerful contemplation of war we will see not soldiers of different nations in combat, but one great family, quarreling, fighting, wounding, and all in need of the peace and charity o

George Orwell - 1984

You are rotting away, you are falling to pieces. What are you? A bag of filth. Now turn around and look into that mirror again. Do you see that thing facing you? That is the last man. If you are human, that is humanity. Now put your clothes on again.