Humanity Quotes - Page 20

• O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ticklish, Wagers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

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• 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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• 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 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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• Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Punishment, Roots

  'The Rights of Man' (1791) p. 33

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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

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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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• I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

  Camille Paglia

  Fall, Laughing, Giving

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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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• 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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• God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

  Maxim Gorky

  Ideas, Feelings, Tribes

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Fate, Finals

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.62, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Home, Heart

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• It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
  I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

  Albert Einstein

  Technology, Might, Someday

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• God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

  Peter Altenberg

  Dream, Thinking, Slumber

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Persistence, Age

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.1, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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• [David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Comforting, Seems

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• Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

  Lynn Margulis

  Discipline, Arrogance, Demand

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• The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Animal, Machines

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