My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. – Sugata Mitra
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that’s becoming quite a big job. – William Gibson
Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they’ve also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there’s anxiety about making the wrong one. – Scott Stossel
In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships. – Zoe Lister-Jones
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. – Sri Chinmoy
In ‘Garden Party’ or ’40 Days and 40 Nights,’ I played characters who people don’t necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them. – Vinessa Shaw
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell. – Soledad O’Brien
You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can’t help but write who you are. I’m just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in ‘The Full Monty’ or Aron Ralston. – Simon Beaufoy
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. – Wole Soyinka
In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it’s less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity – who cares? – Suki Waterhouse
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. – Tom Robbins
China’s headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices – bending nature to man’s will. That’s a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world’s freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake. – Thomas P.M. Barnett
I’m very much an optimist. I don’t think I could do my work if I didn’t believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. – Sandra Bernhard
The decline of violence isn’t a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. – Steven Pinker
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. – Tony Blair
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. – Thomas Day
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. – William Golding
The way I look at humanity, I don’t think there’s good guys or bad guys. We’re all potentially bad and potentially good. – Stellan Skarsgard
If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, we will need a new calendar in the world – it would change humanity that much. Iran will give these weapons to terrorists the world over, and your children and mine will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. – Trent Franks
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. – Wole Soyinka
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. – Tom Hiddleston
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. – Silvia Cartwright
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. – Walt Whitman
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. – Vernor Vinge
I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life. – Sarah Jessica Parker
