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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
- Dance Floor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.
- Frustrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.'
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020