Quotes by humanity
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) -
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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