Humanity Quotes - Page 14

• I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human being, and had great appreciation for the miracle of life and our existence on this earth.

  George Lee Butler

  Appreciation, Believe, Miracle

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• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Mean, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

  Anthony Shadid

  Important, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Survival, Fundamentals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How many people on Earth serve people? And how many people on Earth serve the Earth? The difference in the numbers must be enormous. It would reveal that the Earth is definitely not the primary concern of the human species. This might be fatal both to the Earth and to humanity. Please, leaders of the Earth and the nations, wake up to this potentially fatal disparity.

  Robert Muller

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

  Simon Pegg

  Bills, Hicks, Comic

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• The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Names, Would Be, Infamy

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• The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ignorance, People, Anxiety

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• Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Struggle, Justice, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.88, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Bats, Care

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

  Wesley Morris

  Way, Humans

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

  Edward'O

  Race, Diversity, Environment

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• Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

  Dean Cavanagh

  Mind, Entropy, Symmetry

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• Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them.

  George Ritzer

  Mean, People, Reason

  George Ritzer (1994). “Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Heart, Differences, Suffering

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Paul Evdokimov, 1968.

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Bruises, Doorways

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• Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity

  Scott Cairns

  Divinity, Christ, Occasions

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• Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Civilization, Historical, World

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1949). “Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization”

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• Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

  George W. Bush

  Liberty

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cutting, Thinking, Space

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• Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Speed, Disaster, Bigs

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• Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

  Oliver DeMille

  Artist, Greatness, Keys

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• Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Fullness Of Life, Joy

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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