Humankind Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

  Octavio Paz

  Past, Thinking, Our Society

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• I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Liberty, Defense

  Interview with Damon Beres, www.rd.com.

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• Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a film to express the need for everyone to take part in the protection and preservation of humankind and the Earth.

  Martine Epoque

  Feelings, Mind, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

  Jonathon Porritt

  Progress, Skins, Minorities

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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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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Environmental, Would Be, Revolutionary

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• Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Miracle, Progress, Answers

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• Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.

  LIZ

  Believe, Sandwiches, Want

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• No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Simple, Civilization

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.132, Penguin

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• In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Love You, Fire, Share

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• How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.

  Alan AtKisson

  Heart, Simple, Journey

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• I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are doing something moral when they are doing that, but that's not how I understand morality. I much prefer the "everyone is sacred, and everybody errs" model of reality.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Integrity, Son

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

  Steve Jobs

  Real, Smart, Believe

  "Steve Jobs: the Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine

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• The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Order, Quality

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.

  Marlo Morgan

  Mean, Self Worth, Technology

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

  Cornel West

  Optimistic, America, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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