Quotes on Humans

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

For too long we have tried to consume our _x000D_ way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted _x000D_ lands and oceans, climate change, growing _x000D_ scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh _x000D_ water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a _x000D_ new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the _x000D_ planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind _x000D_ to human beings, but we have not been kind to _x000D_ nature.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.