Humanity Quotes - Page 35

• Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Strong, Past, Helping

  Source: variety.com

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• Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.

  Mike Love

  Heaven, Understanding, Challenges

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.

  Alison Assiter

  Thinking, Common Humanity, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Veils, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Hopeful, Divine Help

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

  Hutch Harris

  Christian, Believe, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

  Ramez Naam

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Rights, Soul, Movement

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Moving, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws. It wasn't based in humanity, although that's the way it was sold. It was rooted in registering voters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Ideas, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This has been the left's technique. The technique is to portray a political enemy of the left as this outrageous caveman or whatever decrepit form of humanity that you can describe, and then assume that everybody else agrees, and then cover the story as though everybody agrees.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Enemy, Technique

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Isis, Common Humanity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

  Matthew Healy

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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