“I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.” PeoplePersonsSometimesHumanityPositionCircumstancesExtremesShort Time Author:Irvine Welsh
“My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.” IfsArtHelpingPurposeHumanityPositionSeriousUncomfortableGood Art Author:Chinua Achebe
“The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.” IfsMenStillsHumanityWealthRichPositionHe ManFailureGainsFortuneRich ManSuccess FailureTrue SuccessLive For Others Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.” ThinkingHumansDoeHumanityCausesHuman BeingsPositionEmbraceAnarchyUsualApathyStance Author:Rod Serling
“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.” IfsMeanDoeStillsMovingHumanityRealizingPositionParticularMovedSettingSettingsBlastHarlem Author:Rita Dove
“If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!” IfsMenImportantCountryHumanityInterestPositionDeserveOfficialsGreat Men Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future. It would also ensure that, if at some point in the future, a real catastrophe, whether human-induced or otherwise (including climate change), does loom on the horizon, humanity would be in a better position to address it.” IfsHumansDoeRealWould BeHumanityPositionUniversalInstitutionsClimateClimate ChangeIncludingAddressesHorizonAdoptionCatastropheAdaptationFree Society Author:Julian Morris