It's humanity's DNA.

Che was no humanist.

Karl Marx certainly was not one.

In assuring peace and development, Europe will have served humanity well.

We must do it. And when we succeed, it will be a triumph for humanity.

But these crimes fall short by an order of magnitude of the great service to humanity and especially to western European humanity that they gave in the rubble along the Volga River 70 years ago this fall.

And then what happened was that they were able to declare that rape was a weapon of war, that it was against humanity.

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a member of Human Etisk Forbund, the Norwegian Humanist Association.

So reducing emissions today is very valuable to humanity in the distant future.

Some sources define egalitarianism as the point of view that equality reflects the natural state of humanity.

The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity.

Castro, no humanist himself, did his best to neutralize Guevara by appointing him Minister for Industry.

The signatories agreed to conserve biological diversity, by saving species and their habitats, and to use biological resources (e.g., forests) in a sustainable manner.

In fact, Iran s leaders continue to deride Israel from afar, calling the country an insult to humanity, or a tumor in the region that must be eradicated.

To divide a people in order to conquer them is an immoral strategy that has endured throughout recorded history.

Many bring evidence of the ravages of poverty, malnutrition and ill health others of the dehumanizing impact of internal conflict and political upheaval.

Mr. Wolfowitz (World Bank) Five years ago, a remarkable vision was laid out in this very Hall, a vision which spelled progress and hope for humanity.

In their burlesque approach to humanity, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are the most enduring and endearing clownish couple in world literature.

He chose to portray what was a cynical alliance of convenience between Israel and the Christian Phalange as a lesson to humanity and a rebuke of that hypocritical Christian Europe which had betrayed the Jews during the Holocaust.

The Summit had recognized explicitly that every State had the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The extension of human morality is a wonderful development for humanity, but it would be even better if it were tempered by cold blooded rationality.

That s what I came here to do. To look for allies I can convince that we deserve less death, and that maybe, just maybe, bombing a school is a shame for all humanity.

The themes included in the group's mandate must be thoroughly studied, including those relating to the common heritage of humankind and the effective distribution of benefits in conformity with the principles of international law.

The Conference reaffirmed the need to share science and technology among Member States and to harness them for peaceful purposes for the good of humanity and for the socio economic development of Member States.

Recognizing that contemporary forms of slavery violate human rights and that trafficking in persons impairs the enjoyment of human rights, continues to pose a serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted international response,

Yet, from another point of view, dialogue prevails over war and the stubborn defense of what one believes to be his identity, because it brings us closer to the vocation of humanity.

Király will be remembered not merely as a warrior, but as a humanist, the conciliator who called for no reprisals after 1989, and a liberal model for many Hungarians.

Through such support we will be contributing to the entrenchment of a culture of accountability for the world's most serious crimes and, ultimately, to universal respect for the common humanity that binds us all.

Support for a culture of peace and for dialogue among cultures and civilizations is a substantial part of that effort indeed, globalization and the emergence of new threats and challenges to humanity require such support.

Rather than pandering to advanced countries obsessions, Rio 20 could do more good for humanity and the planet by focusing on the top environmental problems and their simple solutions.

The outer limits of the continental shelf of a State also define the Area (the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction), which is, together with its resources, the common heritage of mankind (article 136 of the Convention).

Far from it. What Europe s devotion to humanism does mean, however, is a determination, no matter the circumstances, to stand firm and not abandon the fundamentals of European civilization and European unification.

No doubt the consensus was forged in the conviction that the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, still represents the best hope for humankind to solve its problems at the multilateral level.

Auschwitz will forever be engraved in the history of humanity as a symbol of utter contempt for humanity and of genocide. Auschwitz was the most horrific expression of a system blinded by racial insanity which brought untold suffering upon the people.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next. By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

And when we heard a lot of the presentations over the last couple of days, Ed Wilson and the pictures of James Nachtwey, I think we all realized how far we have to go to get to this new version of humanity that I like to call Humanity 2.0.

In the Millennium Declaration, world leaders were confident that humanity could, in the years ahead, make measurable progress towards peace, security, disarmament, human rights, democracy and good governance.

For the moment, politics has claimed paramount status. Yet, from another point of view, dialogue prevails over war and the stubborn defense of what one believes to be his identity, because it brings us closer to the vocation of humanity.

Disaster management and risk reduction efforts have also been strengthened by the launch, in December 2004, of the Humanitarian Early Warning Service website (www.hewsweb.org).

Recent history has witnessed a series of triumphs that humanity can justly take pride in. These have involved the ending of colonialism, the limiting of autocracy, the strengthening of democratic values and institutions, the rise of liberalism and enhanced partnership between Governments and civil society in development.

The basic idea of humanism is the improvable quality of life that we can do good things, that there are things worth doing because they're good things to do, and that clear eyed empiricism can help us figure out how to do them.

Humanity s only hope is that the vicious circle of extremism can be replaced by a shared global understanding of the massive challenges of climate change, food supplies, sustainable energy, water scarcity, and poverty.

Barroso calls the agreement historic, Tony Blair extols its groundbreaking, bold, ambitious targets, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel even ventured that the promises can avoid what could well be a human calamity.

Today s far right forces may be more anti Muslim than anti Semitic Wilders may even be sincerely pro Israel but they maintain the anti humanist, cynical, and racist worldview of their predecessors in the 1930 s.

It is this narrow, black and white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.