#humanit

The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win. ↗

— Mira Grant

#humanity #people-suck #faith

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#gratitude #humanity #inspirational #life #religion

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#could #easygoing #enormous #film #good

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#humanity #evil

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#divinity #exaltation #humanity #jesus #jesus christ

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! ↗

— Robert Burns

#inhumanity #makes #man #mourn #thousands

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#flaws #humanity #i #needs #perfect

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#destinies #drama #example #explores #for example