Humanity Quotes - Page 12

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

Above all nations is humanity.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'