Humanity quotations

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◆ Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

- Ralph Ellison99

◆ If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ God save us from people who mean well.

- Vikram Seth99

◆ We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.

- George Carlin99

◆ We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ Humans see what they want to see.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem99

◆ There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

- Suzanne Collins99

◆ Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

- Dalai Lama XIV99

◆ I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

- C. JoyBell C.99