humanity's fate Quotes

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.