Humankind Quotes - Page 17

• That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Responsibility, Men

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• A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
  Breathless mouths may summon;
  I hail the superhuman;
  I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Greatness, Moisture, Mouths

  "Byzantium" l. 15 (1933)

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• Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.

  George W. Bush

  America, Citizens, Kind

  Address at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., delivered 17 September 2001, Washington, D.C.

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• By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

  Dalai Lama

  Nuclear, Facts, Destruction

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• The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mother, Son, Environmental

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, Suffering

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• Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, People, Purpose

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• The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

  Josephus

  Children, Law, Abortion

  Flavius Josephus (2015). “Writings of Josephus: Book 2”, p.283, Lulu.com

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• Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Brain, Earth, Wave

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• All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Enemy, Suffering

  "The Science to Save Us from Science". The New York Times Magazine, March 19, 1950.

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• In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Years, Civilization, Today

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• Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

  Hal Borland

  Sight, People, Giving

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Anxiety, Historical

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Different, Three

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• This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Should Have, Humanity

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• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Gdp

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• Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Profound, Way

  President Barack Obama's remarks on climate change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, America, Age

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• I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Faith, Religious, Real

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• There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greed, Vices, Extremes

  "The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

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• I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirty, Civilization

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8707, Delphi Classics

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• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  Eva Brann

  Beautiful, Liars, Clouds

  Eva Brann “Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad”, Paul Dry Books

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• I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Children, Real, Animal

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• We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.

  Amani

  Kindness, Mankind, Shows

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• Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
  They are in tune and step
  with constellations of universal law.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Law, Unity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.616, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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