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"The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one."
"One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans."
"A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain."
"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."
"This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate."
"Humanity is just a virus with shoes."
"The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature."
"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."
"Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity."
"Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people."
"From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself."
"Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life."
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology."
"Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity."
"Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings."
"Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity."
"It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius."
"I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist."
"Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry."
"Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation."
