Humanity Quotes - Page 24

• His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

  Chris Matthews

  Spiritual, John Paul Ii, Authority

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Fall, Climate, Combat

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Biblical, Views, Use

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

  James Alison

  Gay, Minorities, Analogies

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

  Chris Marker

  Animal, Gestures, Truest

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• I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

  Howie Mandel

  Candid Camera, People, Cameras

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• I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Hero, Mean, People

  Interview with Oliver Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

  J. B. Smoove

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Mother, Children, People

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• I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

  Danny Lyon

  Process, Changed, Wanted

  Danny Lyon (2009). “Memories of myself: essays”, Phaidon Press

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• I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

  Robert Polidori

  Character, Body, Moral

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• Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Photography, Book, Wind

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• The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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

  C.P. Snow

  Men, Thinking, People

  C. P. Snow (2013). “Science and Government”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Needs, Characteristics, Raises

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• Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Angel

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• I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  "Nicole Ari Parker: The Good Life". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Humanity connected is God.

  Jim Gilliam

  Connected

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

  Howard Thompson

  Atheist, Superstitions, Culture

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• Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.

  Roy H. Williams

  Heart, Home, Vacation

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• Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.

  Howard Thompson

  War, Long, Goal

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• With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Friend, Home, Foundation

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• When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

  David Icke

  Doors, Choices, World

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