John Maeda Quotes

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

You don't have to get into, 'I'm a leftist or a rightist, I'm Democrat or Republican.' You don't have to get into that kind of nitty gritty type of detail, but at the same time to show that you do have a stance is very, very important. To preach the good word of just being a good human being, being a humanitarian.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Above all remember your humanity.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.