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Our Shared, Fragile Existence
Humanity encompasses the collective qualities that define us as human beings, including compassion, empathy, reason, morality, and the pursuit of connection and understanding. It is the shared thread that binds us together, offering meaning by imbuing our lives with purpose, driving us to improve the world, and fostering the enduring relationships that enrich our existence.
# Humanity & Virtues
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Context: • Pedro Arrupe, 'Men for Others', 1973, Valencia, Spain
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (A)
“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Suman Pokhrel, I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity, (An interview with Romain Molina)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (P)
“I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Immanuel Kant, Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (K)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (K)
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sean Williams, The New Venusians (2016), in Jonathan Strahan (ed.) Drowned Worlds (e-book edition, )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
“When people set themselves above nature, they put their very humanity at risk.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Bernie Sanders, "Man – and Woman" in Vermont Freeman (Mid-February 1972)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (S)
“There are no "human" oppressors. Oppressors have lost their humanity.”
— Unknown
# Humanity & Humans
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Context: • Haidakhan Babaji, The Teachings of Babaji, 22 January 1983.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
“Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (F)
“Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954), by Louis Fischer, p. 177
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (G)
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Woodrow Wilson, speech at the luncheon of the Mayor of New York (17 May 1915).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
“For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Pedro Arrupe, 'Men for Others', 1973, Valencia, Spain
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (A)
“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Suman Pokhrel, I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity, (An interview with Romain Molina)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (P)
“I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Immanuel Kant, Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (K)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (K)
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sean Williams, The New Venusians (2016), in Jonathan Strahan (ed.) Drowned Worlds (e-book edition, )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
“When people set themselves above nature, they put their very humanity at risk.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Bernie Sanders, "Man – and Woman" in Vermont Freeman (Mid-February 1972)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (S)
“There are no "human" oppressors. Oppressors have lost their humanity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Haidakhan Babaji, The Teachings of Babaji, 22 January 1983.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
“Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (F)
“Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954), by Louis Fischer, p. 177
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (G)
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Woodrow Wilson, speech at the luncheon of the Mayor of New York (17 May 1915).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (W)
“For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (C)
“An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.”
— Unknown
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Context: • David Benatar, The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism, 2015, p. 55
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
“Humanity is a moral disaster. There would have been much less destruction had we never evolved. The fewer humans there are in the future, the less destruction there will still be.”
— Unknown
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“America’s most important ally should be humanity itself. Our species will not survive another 100 years if we don’t move from a competitive to a cooperative mode of existence. “Me first” is an obsolete, unsustainable perspective.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eckhart Tolle, in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (T)
“If the balance between male and female energies had not been destroyed on our planet, the ego's growth would have been greatly curtailed. We would not have declared war on nature, and we would not be so completely alienated from our Being.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Victor Hugo, in a letter To M. Daelli, publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables (18 October 1862).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“I have written for all, with a profound love for my own country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Pope Benedict XVI, in Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi (30 November 2007), Ch. 39.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (B)
“To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves—these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), Section 124.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France (1796), ch. VI
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (M)
“There is no such thing as man in the world. In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my life met him; if he exists, he is unknown to me.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Haidakhan Babaji, The Teachings of Babaji, 30 October 1982.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“In all respects, we are one humanity, one human family. Limitations arise from political beliefs and world leaders who hold thinking to time, place and culture, thereby creating differences and separateness. The birthright of all mankind is to love and follow God. Limitations arise from erroneous human beliefs.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Spirit of the Age (1830) by William Hazlitt
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (H)
“the plea of humanity is lost by going through the process of law, the firm and manly tone of principle is exchanged for the wavering and pitiful cant of policy, the living bursts of passion are reduced to a defunct common-place, and all true imagination is buried under the dust and rubbish of learned models and imposing authorities.”
— Unknown
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