To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.
Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.'
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.
To me, race is not all about grievance. It is also about pride and empathy and humanity and understanding the value of difference. But along with that, there are also expectations that we should set for ourselves and for others. We should expect to be treated as equal citizens.
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
