Humanity Quotes - Page 56

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.