Humanity Quotes - Page 29

• You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Want, Fool

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• Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence

  Pope John Paul II

  Doors, Rejection, Suffering

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.

  Nick Bostrom

  Challenges, Important, Might

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.7, Oxford University Press (UK)

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Vision, Needs, Unending

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Educational, Names, Welfare

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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

  Melinda Gates

  Meaningful, Generosity, Inspire

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• One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

  Charles S. Price

  Thinking, Lazy, Trouble

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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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• Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Together, Sin

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