Humanity Quotes - Page 37

• Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.

  Allen W. Wood

  Technology, Long, Swamps

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Sides, Normal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

  John Dewey

  Animal, Achievement, Tuition

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Racism, Impossible

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• Art should be on the side of humanity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Sides, Should

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• In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at all hostile to these. He is suspicious of them insofar as they represent the corruption of social life (here he follows Rousseau), but he also thinks a variety of feelings (including respect and love of humanity) arise directly from reason - there is, in other words, no daylight between the heart and the head regarding such feelings.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

  George F. Kennan

  Cat, Animal, Pet

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• The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.

  Angela of Foligno

  Holy Eucharist, Perfection, Grace

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• Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.

  Red Haircrow

  Love, Hero, Men

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• That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.

  Susan Mallery

  Heart, Fighting, Winning

  Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.323, HQN Books

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• This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

  Richard Kadrey

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

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• Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Choices, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.

  Rodney Clapp

  Moon, Ezekiel, Office

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• Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

  Claudia Black

  Giving, Shadow, Important

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2016.

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• Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

  David Attenborough

  Climate, Terrorist, Ifs

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

  Robert Hass

  Jobs, Cutting, Levels

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

  Phylicia Rashad

  People, Matter, Want

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Community, Violence, Tribes

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Reading, School

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.

  David Bennun

  Girl, Attitude, Believe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Lessons, Wave

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• It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

  Harrison Ford

  Focus, Common, Conversation

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• I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Rights, Honor

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.

  Allen W. Wood

  Presidential, Lasts, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

  Bill Mollison

  Believe, Thinking, Interesting

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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