The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
Humanity is just a virus with shoes.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...
I love humanity, it’s people I don’t like.
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
Humans see what they want to see.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people.