Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
