Humanity Quotes - Page 68

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.