Humanity
Neil Armstrong’s Famous Quote
“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Future
“The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier.”
Albert Einstein on Technology & Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Stephen Jay Gould on Science
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
H. L. Mencken on Humanity
“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
Stephen Hawking on Computers
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.”
Joseph Conrad on Evil
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
William S. Burroughs on Politics and Science Fiction
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’ “
Abraham Lincoln’s Cynical Quote
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Benjamin Franklin on Politics
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
L. Frank Baum on Imagination
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
Millard Fuller on Community
“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.”
John F. Kennedy on War
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
Henry David Thoreau on Flying
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”
Mark Twain on Desire
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
Plato on Humanity
“No human thing is of serious importance.”
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.”
Scott Adams Cynical Quote
“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”
Blaise Pascal on Angels
“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.”
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
Benjamin Franklin on Freedom and Security
“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”