Humanity Quotes - Page 19

• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tree, Looks, Growing

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Eye, Drawing

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• What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Real Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black

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• Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Responsibility, Sisterhood

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• The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Blow, Thinking, Progress

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• I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Misery, Values

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• The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Reading, Blessing, Voice

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• There is something about humanity just being drained in many different ways, I think. There are so many things that drain us nowadays, where literally you're just bombarded as a human being. It may be that, or it may be this romantic idea of being forever immortal, of witnessing humanity generation after generation.

  Mia Maestro

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Lying, Years, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Mother, Children, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Philadelphia

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: collider.com

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• Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

  Holliday Grainger

  Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Bravery, Inspire

  Interview with Roseanne Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2, 2012.

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• All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Effort, Tears

  Mary Baker Eddy (2003). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

  Juliette Binoche

  Passion, Needs, Movement

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• I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Suffering, Wanted

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• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  A. R. Rahman

  Spiritual, Giving, Perspective

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• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Important

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• How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

  Jean Piaget

  World, Littles

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.

  Paige

  War, Compassion, Gun

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• Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

  E. O. Wilson

  Vision, Needs, Unending

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• The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

  Jill Tarter

  Thinking, Years, Cosmos

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• No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Dignity Of Work, Labor

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

  Herbert Hoover

  Law, Criminals, May

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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