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• 1974 - Jewel Kilcher
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• We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

  Shelley Morrison

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Compassion

• I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Believe, Ego

• But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

  Thomas Day

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Remember

• There’s a call to adventure. It’s something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  Gary Gygax

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Adventure

• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Rival, Global

• I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Actress, Supposed

• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Humanity, Love

  Tags in Thinkers

• It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in People

• The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity, Spirituality

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Understanding

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Freedom

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Edgar Quinet

  Topics in Future, Humanity

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  Edmund Husserl

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in Spiritual

• Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Humanity

• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Nations

• My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

  Wole Soyinka

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Human Being

• I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

  Ron Perlman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Wish

• I will not do a role that I don’t think I can do, that I’m not interested in, where there’s no humanity, that doesn’t have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I’ll just stink the joint up.

  Ron Perlman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Kind

• There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

  Ron Perlman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Characters

• Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

  Roddy Doyle

  Topics in Humanity, Society

  Tags in World