#humanity

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#could #hope #humanity #i #kind

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #humans #life #ownership #life

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. ↗

— Edward Bond

#become #chair #get #humanity #product

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

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. ↗

— David Gemmell

#ignorance #truth #men

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. ↗

— Aberjhani

#americans #faith #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #haiku #haikus

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity. ↗

— Imam Ali bin abi Taleb

#humanity #relations-and-love #faith

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human #humanity #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#nothing #wisdom #wisdom

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