"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."
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"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity."
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"Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
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"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
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"Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made."
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"The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded."
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"A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point."
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it."
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."
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"The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew."
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"My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury."
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"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."
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"A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched."
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"Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done."
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"The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge."
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"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity."
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"The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked."
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"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
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