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• Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Computer, Humanity

  Tags in Winning, Personally, Need, Look

• It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in God, Humanity

  Tags in World, Faith, Purpose, Impossible, Community

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Called, Picturesque, Manners, Significant, Journalist, Literature

• The purpose of democracy — supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish’d dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance — is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures,

  to illustrate, at all hazards, this doctrine or theory that man, properly train’d in sanest, highest freedom, may and must become a law, and series of laws, unto himself, surrounding and providing for, not only his own personal control, but all his relations to other individuals, and to the State; and that, while other theories, as in the past histories of nations, have proved wise enough, and indispensable perhaps for their conditions, this, as matters now stand in our civilized world, is the only scheme worth working from, as warranting results like those of Nature’s laws, reliable, when once establish’d, to carry on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity

  Tags in Humanism, Law

• We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Material Possessions, Civilization

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Temper, Mankind

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Mankind

• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Grief, Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Calamity, Innumerable, Man

• It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Future, Humanity

  Tags in Imagination

• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Humankind, Rebellious, Sober

• If Bush said just once: ‘Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,’ or showed some humanity.

  Burt Bacharach

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Accept, Showed, Bush

• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Humanity, Religion

  Tags in Worship

• For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

  Donald Williams

  Topics in Humanity, Vision

  Tags in Illusions, Diversity, Globalism, Earth

• To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Understanding

• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Spite

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Change/Growth, Reform

• The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

  W. H. Auden

  Topics in History, Humanity, Knowledge

• Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Better, Honor, Person

• The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

  William Godwin

  Topics in Humanity, Justice, Love

  Tags in Will

• Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

  Anne Sullivan

  Topics in Challenge, History, Humanity

  Tags in Change/Growth, Freedom