Humanity Quotes - Page 30

• Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Ideas, Roots, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

  LeCrae

  Real, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, College, Iowa

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

  Michael Boatman

  Thinking, Stories, Lines

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.

  DJ Spooky

  Heart, Mean, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Dark, Stories

  "Charlize Theron calls upon her shape-shifting powers once again". Interview with Rebecca Traister, www.elle.com. March 11, 2008.

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• The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

  Leo Errera

  Motto, Reap, Altruism

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• What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

  Leo Errera

  Flower, Future, Science

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• It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.

  Nick Bilton

  Character, Fighting, Men

  Nick Bilton (2013). “Hatching Twitter”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self

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• Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility - that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve - slowly, no doubt, but certainly - God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Peace, Real, Responsibility

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

  Hakuun Yasutani

  Life, Spiritual, Oneness

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• What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Facts, Size

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

  John Assaraf

  Christian, Hero, White

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.

  John Assaraf

  Self Esteem, Doing What You Love, Feelings

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he was a human being who achieved such promise of humanity that he entered into what I think God is: mainly, the power of life, the power of love and what Paul Tillich, a German theologian of the mid-twentieth century, called "the ground of all being."

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Thinking, Promise

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human life needs to be empowered. We have to begin to see the work of God as expanding the humanity of people so that they do not have to relate to one another out of the survivor mentality of fallen people.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, People, Needs

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Struggle, Years, Survival

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Survival, Christianity

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I think if you're convinced that you're evil, and that God has had to rescue you, then the best you can be is grateful. But nobody ever loves the person they have to be perpetually grateful to. That's just not the way it works in humanity. You need to be set free. You need to be loved just as you are so that you can become all that you can be. That's the direction we have to turn the Christian message; when we do, it becomes universal.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Democracy, Guarantees

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Mean, Order

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, New York, Book

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

  Palmer Luckey

  Real, Communication, Technology

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Majority, Pestilence

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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