humanity Quotes

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

topic:humanity choice goodness

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:nature humanity

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:memory humanity

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

topic:humanity language

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“It is more likely . . . mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:humanity violence

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:humanity equality

“The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

topic:humanity action theory

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