humanity Quotes

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.