Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. (“Dilbert”)
Human - Humanity Quotes
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself – either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
Humanism sucks the egg of personality’s value and then tries to hatch a higher religion out of it.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
May the humanity that is within every human being be held more and more precious, and be regarded with ever deepening reverence. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.
If there is such a phenomenon as true evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
If I could get my membership fee back, I’d resign from the human race.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. There is a very real thing which may be called the love of humanity; in our time it exists almost entirely among what are […]
