Humanity Quotes - Page 102

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

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

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and breed on this earth, so we replace ourselves with androids that can do. The androids can go up into space and take the future of humanity forward because maybe we just bow out with a carbon-based epoch.

The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

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

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.

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.