The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.
Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives.
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.
Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable
I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
. . . if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.
Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.