We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

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.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

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?

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

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

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.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

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

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited… The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

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?

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.