I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on Earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
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Quotes tagged ‘humanity’
Nothing impacts life on earth today more than humanity does.
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
Human awareness extracts geometry as a perceptual experience. Reality is possibilities for shapes and forms.
The future is in your hands, but for it to be peaceful and happy requires a sense of compassion and concern for others’ well-being.
Creating a better world will require will-power, vision and determination. And for that we need a strong sense that humanity is one family.
Problems created by human beings have to be solved by human beings. Basic human nature is compassionate and this is our source of hope.
Show me a Nation with a science-hostile government, and I'll show you a society with failing health, wealth, & security.
Don't just do something, stand there.
It's easy for me to understand that I contain multitudes, but rather than understanding that of other people, too often I imagine them as merely sick or merely poor or merely 'them' to some 'us' that includes me.
We often associate reading and writing with humanness, but there are many people who can't read or write, and often, they're marginalized people, the people whose humanity most needs to be acknowledged.
I believe that we confer personhood upon each other through empathy and compassion and trust.
I believe that when we acknowledge each other's consciousness and complexity, we lead better lives and feel less alone in our grief and our joy.
There will never be enough money and fame and love for us in this world, because every time we get what we thought we wanted, we realize that we want more. Because what we really want is to go back in time to some place when we felt safe, some time before we discovered violence and corruption, when…
WE made the world in which we live, not some all-powerful other.
They say it’s one of the rarest events in nature happening and everyone's just oblivious to it. And you can’t blame them for it, it's just almost typical of all of humanity.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one even…
Nothing less than the undivided universe can be our true home.
What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.