- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity Quotes
On believing in people, mostly.
A recurring idea here is art as a tool for elevating humanity, shared as widely as it can possibly reach, a value shared with the compassion collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dam
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- Nov 07, 2020
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
- Depraved
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020