"Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent."
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"Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all."
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"It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all."
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"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
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"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
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"When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
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"The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities."
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"The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness"
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"In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror."
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"Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud."
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"Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners."
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"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."
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"Every human heart is human."
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"What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us."
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"The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding."
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"I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society."
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"Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind."
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"To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'"
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