Humankind Quotes

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin

Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
- Theodore Bikel

Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity.
It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
- Robert Cailliau

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents
the passing of humankind from center stage,
but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
- Vernor Vinge

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating
all humankind with love and respect a sport.
- Todd Barry

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute
your unique donation to humankind.
Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our
world is precious and special.
- Morris Dees

A great revolution in just one single individual will
help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and,
further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot

For the first time in history all the major countries
in the world are pushing together to reach this goal...
building something in space that is really for all humankind.
- Umberto Guidoni

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins
of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
- Jean Philippe Rameau

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild
ocean in ways that will restore the health and,
in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
Health to the ocean means health for us.
- Sylvia Earle

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom,
where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before.
This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
- Albert Maltz

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing
to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind;
but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
- Rowan D. Williams

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic
start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of
humankind within the body of society and to prepare
a positive future in this context.
- Joseph Beuys

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before.
The boundaries between the problems of "others" and
"our" problems are being increasingly erased.
- Janez Drnovsek

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date
thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look.
Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term
threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to
begin action towards their elimination.
- Joseph Rotblat

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and
the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening,
I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind
that we cannot stop the killing?
- Marcy Kaptur

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa

A jug fills drop by drop.
- The Buddha

I don't know if you can change things,
but it's a drop in the ocean.
- Julie Walters

Facts which at first seem improbable will,
even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has
hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
- Galileo Galilei

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates.
You get lazy and you start acting.
- Ben Kingsley

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins,
if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
- Rebecca West

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say
something before they respond.
You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make
a sound until you say something to the crowd.
- Kelly Jones

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
See the world.
It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
- Ray Bradbury

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
- Terrence Howard

I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there
that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden
there's an unexpected drop in PCs.
- Daniel Morgan

Zen says that if you drop knowledge -
and within knowledge everything is included;
your name, your identity, everything,
because this has been given to you by others -
if you drop all that has been given by others,
you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence.
This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality,
and there will be a resurrection of your innocence.
You will become a child again, reborn.
- Osho

Punk will never be dead to me.
It's my life.
I can never just drop this lifestyle.
It embodies me.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders.
The world would go on even without you.
Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Norman Vincent Peale

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
- George Byron

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather.
As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- Charles de Gaulle

I always figure I have this tree and there's always
some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms
that are ready to flower;
there are always some ready to drop off too.
- Graeme Murphy

White collar conservative flashin down the street,
pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume
my kind will drop and die,
but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
- Jimi Hendrix

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when
you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it.
Drop it.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.

I am so busy doing nothing...
that the idea of doing anything - which as you know,
always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and
then forces me to have to drop everything.
- Jerry Seinfeld

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop
out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
- Joe Flanigan

I like spending time at home.
In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat,
or they drop by and watch Friends on TV.
I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
- Marc Jacobs

Every drop in the ocean counts.
- Yoko Ono

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling
more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy
the lukewarm music this produces.
So they then drop the artist.
- Malcolm Wilson

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything.
When I need names they drop out of my head;
when I don't need them they drop back.
- Imogen Cunningham

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also
continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community.
I'm looking to elevate through my music,
and through my music I educate.
- Talib Kweli

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.
Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
- Brooks Atkinson

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job.
But if you ever get sucked into doing it,
drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Foxworthy

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.
I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness.
If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
- James Hillman

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings,
the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time,
the drop of the water on water.
- Charles Olson

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
- Leo Aikman

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight,
and I don't want to.
When I find out a man is interested in these sports,
I drop him.
- Hedy Lamarr

I think when the bottom started to drop out,
we didn't recognize it.
- Wellington Mara

There was something about being in front of audiences
when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill.
It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
- Mira Sorvino

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone,
not by violence, but by oft falling.
- Hugh Latimer

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together
or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray
was a lot like fighting him.
He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.
- Dick Schaap

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop
it? I can lose the accent;
I just have to really focus on what I'm saying.
And I have to talk slowly.
- Leah Remini

I am financing the recording myself.
So I have no big names to drop.
- Holly Johnson

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take,
you're connected to the sea.
No matter where on Earth you live.
- Sylvia Earle

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
- Bugs Baer

Hit a home run - put your head down,
drop the bat,
run around the bases, because the name on the front is more -
a lot more important than the name on the back.
- Ryne Sandberg

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
I wanted to photograph.
- Imogen Cunningham

We're playing the Superbowl this year,
we're opening up before the coins drop.
- Peter Criss

The clouds may drop down titles and estates,
and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
- Edward Young

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism,
if only because he has nothing to oppose it with.
The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
- Elias Canetti

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