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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
Alain de Botton
Work
You
Respect
Humanity
Hate
People
Mechanic
Everybody
See
Silly
Beach
Looks
Makes
Very
Accountant
Whether
Holiday
Hard
Elicit
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver
Humanity
People
Poet
Own
Writer
Essay
Fiction
Fiction Writer
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
Brent Weeks
Good
Struggle
Good And Evil
Humanity
Evil
Think
Excellent
Questions
Fiction
Place
Us
Inhumanity
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
Connie Mack
Life
Together
Humanity
Men
Other
Keystone
Structure
Pursuit
Crumble
True
Any
Nations
Holds
Whole
Teams
Baseball
A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.
David Icke
Humanity
Control
Group
Brotherhood
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu
You
Humanity
Be Nice
Nice
Rediscover
Whites
Need
When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.
Eve Ensler
Future
You
Women
Humanity
Once
Destroy
See
Know
Because
Without
How
End
Going
Sustain
Happens
Population
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros
Leadership
Humanity
World
Responsibility
Power
National
Addition
Our
Recognize
Must
Take
Protecting
Dominant
National Interests
Common
Common Interests
Interests
Special
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love
Humanity
Believe
Those
Would
Would-Be
Had
Perhaps
Itself
Gods
Any
Often
Cannot
Them
Who
Assert
Sufficient
Thinkers
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
Henry Rollins
Humanity
Our
Only
Brutality
Deliver
Achievements
Us
We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.
Ilhan Omar
Success
Humanity
Speak
Own
Others
Our
Must
See
Struggles
Common
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
James Bryce
Justice
Humanity
Country
Our
Allegiance
Only
Also
Owe
Owed
The Only Thing
Which
Thing
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul
Beautiful
Forgiveness
Humanity
Else
Never
Another
Praying
Forgiving
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
Great
Humanity
Power
Few
Enough
Monstrous
Minds
Worthy
Great Minds
Make
Hearts
Endow
Us
Using
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
John Perry Barlow
Best
Humanity
Internet
Other
Tool
Liberating
Invented
Both
Most
Also
Surveillance
Ever
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Nelson DeMille
Injustice
Humanity
First
Every
Unkindness
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Step
Taking
Towards
First Step
Real
Barbarism
Then
Act
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
War
Man
Courage
Humanity
Intelligence
Beauty
Cowardice
Nothing
Way
Foolishness
Him
Does
Reveals
Ugliness
Enigma
Alas
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Paul Bloom
Love
Hope
Future
Best
Family
Appreciation
Humanity
People
Impossible
Value
Strangers
Think
Our
Distant
Those
Lies
Fact
Empathize
Instead
Get
Same
Even
Lives
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
Peace Pilgrim
Humanity
Only
Potential
Surface
Real
Scratched
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Peace Pilgrim
Humanity
Same
Cells
Body
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
Religion
Humanity
Important
Both
Importance
Tied
Roles
Essential
Theology
Reason
Function
Keep
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
Sam Harris
Yourself
Humanity
People
Matter
Christian
Jews
Liberal
Validity
Muslims
Status
Status Quo
Tacit
Morally
Rather
Merely
Identified
Identifying
How
Than
Quo
Against
Lends
Theology
Your
Whole
Jew
Christians
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
Humanity
Intelligence
Sense
Philosophers
Poets
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Man
Animal
Humanity
Sex
Giving
Has-Been
Above
Superiority
Risking
Been
Accorded
Which
Forth
Why
Brings
Raised
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.
Victor Hugo
Me
You
Humanity
Ugly
Made
Hell
Tell
Must
Deity
Outrage
He
Been
His
Very
Reply
Hell Is
Your
Image
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward
Humanity
Makes
Afflictions
Either
Breeds
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