Humankind Quotes - page 6

Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources. (Julian Baggini)
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? View quote
Marcy Kaptur
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email. View quote
Ryan Holmes
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards. View quote
Seth Shostak
For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. View quote
Michael Pollan
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. View quote
Marquis de Sade
....Humankind, -- that all men anthropological come from the same source, with the same potentials, must have a potential equality in chance and opportunity and that is so right, I think, that posterity will look back upon what we are doing today in our domestic issues here. They will look back upon it, I think, with incredulity and they'll wonder what the issue was all about. I really think so. It's solved in baseball. It'll be solved educationally. It'll be solved everywhere in the course of time. View quote
Branch Rickey
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind. View quote
Norman Cousins
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. View quote
Joseph Beuys
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism. View quote
Jeffrey Cohen
It is up to humankind to make peace on earth, not by force but based on free will. Albert Einstein said, "Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.”. (Newton Lee)
Transhumanists around the world are cooperating to mitigate existential threats to humankind. View quote
Newton Lee
Humankind too often cooks up an excuse to start war instead of making peace. Rather than developing better strategies to win wars, we should focus on better recipes to attain peace. View quote
Newton Lee
Is gene editing less ethical than human beings killing one another at wars and destroying wildlife on earth? A biomass study showed that humankind represents just 0.01% of all living things on the planet, and yet humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants. View quote
Newton Lee
Change is inevitable, and it is up to humankind to create a brave new world of utopia instead of dystopia, a heaven on earth instead of a living hell. View quote
Newton Lee
Man-made environmental disasters force nature's hand to unleash its fury on humankind. View quote
Newton Lee
The Great Flood in the Bible and other ancient texts is a grave warning to humankind, and yet very few people seem to care about global existential threat. View quote
Newton Lee
Transhumanism is the next logical step in the evolution of humankind, and it is the existential solution to the long-term survival of the human race. View quote
Newton Lee
We are teaching AI software that will evolve into superintelligence; and superintelligence will in turn teach humankind and explain the Scriptures. View quote
Newton Lee
No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. (Samuel P. Huntington)
At least at a basic "thin” morality level, some commonalities exist between Asia and the West. In addition, as many have pointed out, whatever the degree to which they divided humankind, the world's major religions - Western Christianity, Orthodoxy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism - also share key values in common. If humans are ever to develop a universal civilization, it will emerge gradually through the exploration and expansion of these commonalities. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Humankind is an insignificant part of existence. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection only occasionally. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan