Humanity Quotes - Page 70

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and caves has been translated. Even without taking into consideration the spiritual aspect, Bön should be preserved as a treasure for humanity just for its cultural aspect.

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.