Humanity Quotes - Page 40

• The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Views, Citizens

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Imagination, Leader, Needs

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Innovation, Reform, Culture

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Criticism, Culture, Whistleblowers

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a wonderful philosopher, said that we need the nation. We need something that people can lean on, from which they can then reach out to the whole world. The idea of all humanity is too vague. It can't motivate human aspiration in a reliable way.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Self, Ideas, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.

  Howard Gardner

  Passion, Common Humanity, Differences

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Isis, Views, Issues

  "Zbigniew Brzezinski On Trump's Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. March 17, 2017.

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• A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

  Saadi Yacef

  Men, Soul, Important

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I have fascination and wonder about the line and transparent quality or properties in watercolor. I use watercolor to give voice to what I would like to talk about.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Voice, Giving, Quality

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Fashion, Thinking, Common Humanity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Order, Discipline, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have to remember the good people in the world outnumber the bad people. I think when you start to feel frustrated or you have no hope left in humanity or whatever, you've got to just remember that there are people out there who are working incredibly hard to get a positive message across.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone in a forest, or sometimes looking at the stars. There's really something very powerful about nature that's endlessly mysterious and a reminder of our humanity, our mortality, of more existential things that we usually manage to not get involved with very often because of daily activity.

  Shirin Neshat

  Stars, Powerful, Ocean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Identity, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Goodness, Deny

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

  Elia Suleiman

  World, Intense, Known

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just love to play characters that are layered and that I can relate to in some way, even if they're completely different than me; that I can see a glimpse of humanity and something I'm interested in exploring.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Character, Play, Glimpse

  Source: collider.com

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• Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Mean, Giving

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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. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

  David Attenborough

  Weather, Long, Climate

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

  India.Arie

  Believe, Blue, Media

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Art, Biblical

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Who voted for Trump? Who are these people who, as he famously said, would let him shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still support him? It's people who want too strong a leader, who would do what that leader tells them. Similar to the Europeans following Mussolini and Hitler. There's a streak in humanity that likes that kind of leader. That's Trump's core. Authoritarianism.

  John Dean

  Strong, People, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

  David LaChapelle

  People, Age, Revolution

  Source: museemagazine.com

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