Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.