494 Quotes About Humanity-and-society

A person needs a basic trust of life and humanity in order to allow all this to happen, to believe more in human goodness than he or she fears its evil. This person has to trust that most people are good people—and also trust that this isn't an axe-murderer. Trust in one's own intuition as well as humanity’s character is also a must. Most of what is wrong with Earthfolks has to do with fear.

Branch by branch - we are the fruits of the same tree; so we should indulge in appreciation for each other.

(I was) slightly suspicious of these babbling children of intellectuals who were themselves babblers, my schoolmates who had already produced the next senile generation . . . I had noticed that behind their masks people were actually unhelpful, cold, brutally indifferent toward everything that at the moment did not fall within the sphere of their immediate interest.

Buat apa membangun gedung tinggi jika masih ada pegunungan yang jauh lebih indah.Buat apa merubah pesawahan menjadi perumahan jika masih ada rakyat yang berebut demi sebungkus nasi.Buat memerintah jika diri sendiri tidak mau dikritik.Dan buat apa menjadi manusia jika tidak bisa mengatasi kebosanan dengan cara mencari kebahagiaan untuk sendiri dan untuk orang lain.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of life and surely life itself if beyond wisdom and surely beyond foolishness.

War is cruelty. You can't refine it.

Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.