Humanity Quotes
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Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.
Erik Brynjolfsson -
Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.
Steven Levy
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As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.
African Spir -
"Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating -
What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.
Eboo Patel -
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Paul Goodman -
My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.
Booker Little
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Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
Enele Sopoaga -
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Ernest Dimnet -
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
Uzodinma Iweala -
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie -
I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
Svetlana Alexievich -
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.
Wole Soyinka
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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
Confucius -
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
Emil Cioran -
There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.
Hamid Dabashi -
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.
Wole Soyinka -
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.
Gail Simone -
After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.
Brandon Bays
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Everyone and everythig that humanity has ever loved, or cared for, has lived on our precious earth.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner -
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright -
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
Thomas Keating