Greatest words ever said by man · 4:49am Aug 21st, 2013
"The importance of the achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet... that our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited." Neil Armstrong
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."
- Albert Einstein
"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
- Henry Miller
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
- Marie Curie
"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."
- James Allen
"Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every fucking day.”
- Jon Stewart
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
- The Diary of Anne Frank
"I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown --in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability....and goodness.....of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth --but that we will always make it....survive....endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart."
- Robert A. Heinlein