By separating humanity from citizenship, the French Declaration (and today, human rights treaties) introduced two alternatives: imperialism, in which the nation claims to be the expression of humanity and to spread its civilising influence through conquest.
"I see humanity as part of nature in the first place, so separating humanity from nature is a difficult mental exercise to begin with.
I don't care how many people read what you write or attend your church or click on your video or like your meme, if love and unity are not at the core of it all, it's wasted attention and it serves only to divide and separate humanity.
A whole generation of children the last one coalesced into something immaterial and supremely powerful, so removing all trace of separate humanity from the earth.
Last week in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, King Abdullah of Jordan, said "what separates humanity is miniscule, compared to what we hold in common".
Because we recently crossed the line that separates humanity from the next presidential election by a full seven hundred days and nights, now is the time for us all to be concerned about the inscrutable bureaucratic legerdemain upon which the entire presidential primary system is built.
The nightingale of "Ode to a Nightingale" is separated from humanity and does not have human concerns.
". Jim Wallis, in his book, On God's Side, writes about politics being separated from humanity.
Separating the essence of humanity from biological existence has lead, at least on an intellectual level, to a situation in which (at least with regard to its intellectual plane) the abstract understanding of humans began to be absolutized – this was the cost that came with being human, seen as a physically existing being.
We, in turn, are accustomed to seeing the horrors of the 20th century – such as the exodus from Paris, glimpsed here from a train as "a rubbish dump, a mound of junk and clutter" that separates into fleeing humanity – through Beckett's eyes.
The poem contains both epithalamic and elegiac characteristics; Lucy is shown as wedded to nature, while her human lover is left alone to mourn in the knowledge that death has separated her from humanity.
