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“We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.”

People Knows Giving Wells Problem Bigs Kids Humanity Issues Diets Big Things Obesity Fast Food

Author:Chris Noth

“Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots”

Wells Has Beens Said Humanity Ethics Roots Fruit Finest Well Said

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.”

People Wells May War Humanity Greater Century Bird Affliction 20th Century Viruses Flu Tolls Scourge Havoc Pandemics Influenza

Author:David L. Katz

“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”

“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”

People Men World Wells Earth Desire Humanity Individual Realizing Religious Sacrifice Honest This World Great Things Being Honest Nobility Vulgarity Fatherland Personal Desire

Author:Ernest Renan

“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Wells May Humanity Existence Moral Cost Survival Consequence Privilege Preserves Serving Warning Holocaust Frightening License

Book:Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Source: Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas