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“Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.”

Ifs Needs Dream Able Humanity Existence Misery Instant

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.”

Able Humanity Havens Republican Candidates

Author:Alan Rudolph

“Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.”

Kind Soul Reality Able Faces Humanity Names Objects Glasses Surface Mask Volume Connotation Vases

Author:Fabio Novembre

“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.”

Firsts Looks Able Earth Humanity Space Views Planets Moon First Time Program Our Planet Spaceships Afar Space Program Fallouts

Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.”

Ifs Humans Able Humanity Answers Fundamentals Slavery Wipe

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.”

Humans Able Humanity Drawing

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.”

“Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.”

Ifs Looks Mean Persons Able Beautiful Humanity Turns Seeing Photography Ugly

Author:Zana Briski

“Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.”

Mind Has Beens Body Able Humanity Drug Addiction Tyranny Mind And Body Drug Addiction Drug Addict

Author:Freda Adler

“Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.”

Able Humanity Democratic Collectives Richness

Author:Stanley Crouch