Humanity Quotes - Page 36

• I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Looks, Crime

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Use, United States

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a story of human transformation, the powerful epiphany, Malcolm's X journey to Mecca, his renunciation of the Nation of Islam's racial separatism, his embrace of universal humanity, of humanism that was articulated through Sunni Islam. Well, that's the story everybody knows.

  Manning Marable

  Powerful, Journey, People

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity.

  Klayton

  Technology, Sides, Sinister

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes.

  Catherine Camus

  Ideas, People, Generosity

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.

  Eric McCormack

  Racing, Disease, Killers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with.  It's only clay we've got.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Clay

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

  Byron Katie

  Simple, People, Want

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Past, Done, Want

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Worry, Moral, Standards

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Teacher, Civilization

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

  Zhu Zhu

  People, Needs, World

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.

  Barack Obama

  World, Apologizing, Common

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Tears, Wipe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.

  Judith Butler

  World, Matter, Population

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• What is demanded by God today is not a message to a particular people alone, a message is demanded for the whole of humanity who has suffered under the 6,000-year rule of Satan (or "Shaitan"); whose evil is not confined to himself but is spread to all the corners of the Earth.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Years, Evil, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than others, but chosen because of the uniqueness of our position inside of America, and 460 years under slavery, neo-slavery, and injustice, to carry a message to the whole of humanity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Years, America, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• My passion today is not only justice for the Black man and woman of America, but for all those who cry out to the Supreme Being for justice in their lives - and that's Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and White, for the whole of humanity has been deprived of that which The Creator has ordered for us, and that is freedom, justice, equality, and submission to the Will of Allah.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Passion, Men, Yellow

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Heart, Expression, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fasting

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Vanity, Giving, Sake

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Different, Homosexuality, Has Beens

  Source: www.flavourmag.co.uk

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