Humanity Quotes - Page 84

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my outlook on everything and yet I'm not even sure how. It must be because in my formative years it was everything to me, the single place of beauty in my life, and of breathtaking beauty at that. I still believe that pure mathematics is the most creative thing that humanity does, though I am no longer a part of it.

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.

What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.

I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.