Humanity Quotes - Page 7

• The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Interesting, Society

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

  Douglas Coupland

  Problem, Humans, Courses

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• Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Paradox, Contradiction

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 408

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• Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

  Alan Kay

  Communication, Enough, Junkie

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• I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Looks, Look Up, Humans

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1983). “Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

  May Sarton

  Artist, Self, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

  Paul Harvey

  Generations, Littles, Heat

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• Human faces are such a world!

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  World, Faces, Humans

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• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Able, Humans

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Lying, Believe

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Law, Body

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Fundamentals, Birth

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

  Barbra Streisand

  Interesting, Trust Yourself, Contact

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Strange

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

  Paul Klee

  Skeletons, People, Skins

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

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• In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

  Hillel the Elder

  Strive, Humans

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• People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Communication, People

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Culture

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I never liked my own species.

  Gary Larson

  Species, My Own

  "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

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• Scandal is only human.

  Jerry Saltz

  Scandal, Humans

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• Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Rights, Rebel

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• The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Way, Idiot

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Air, Shoes, Feelings

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• I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

  Janice Tanton

  Race, Care, Strive

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• A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Art, Vacuums, Made

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