Humanity Quotes - Page 38

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.