Humanity Quotes
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It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The so-called human race. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries Without them humanity cannot survive. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. (Quote by - Buddha)
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. (Quote by - Louis Farrakhan)
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering and it seems that the more mature humanity becomes in terms of knowledge and age, the less mature we are in other ways. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit You have to fall back upon humanity and God. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. (Quote by - Robert A Heinlein)
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me. (Quote by - Ted Turner)
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
Lies are essential to humanity They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
The parks of Paris: the Bois de Boulogne, Parc Monceau, Vert Galant, Luxembourg, Tuileries, Buttes-Chaumont and others of varying size and fame - they symbolize man's humanity to man. (Quote by - Landt Dennis)
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. (Quote by - Terence)
We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now! (Quote by - Withnail And I)
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. (Quote by - Tom Robbins)
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. (Quote by - Anon.)
He held his seat; a friend to human race. (Quote by - Homer)
After all, there is but one race: humanity (Quote by - George Moore)
Humanity has won its battle Liberty now has a country. (Quote by - Marquis de Lafayette)
Man is an ape with possibilities. (Quote by - Roy Chapman Andrews)
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. (Quote by - Gilbert K Chesterton)
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
War is a defeat for humanity. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?.. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo. (Quote by - Sam Walter Foss)
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families Any scourge is preferable to it. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. (Quote by - Plato)
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. (Quote by - Seneca)
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. (Quote by - Martin Esslin)
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?.. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. (Quote by - e e cummings)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls. (Quote by - Dan Simmons)
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?. (Quote by - Bell Hooks)
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Quote by - Bible)
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man (Quote by - Charles Sumner)
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity ow Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness In fact, he resents it He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. (Quote by - E O Wilson)
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'ything thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice. (Quote by - Paul West)
Humanity is the Son of God. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Plato as the saviour of humanity? Rather the opposite. (Quote by - Jostein Gaardner)
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. (Quote by - William J Clinton)
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. (Quote by - Gustav Flaubert)
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God Humanity is just a work in progress. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God Humanity is just a work in progress. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
God comes to us in theatre in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. (Quote by - Julie Harris)
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity. (Quote by - Paul Davies)
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)
Man, an animal that makes bargains. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
I have no faith in human perfectability I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. (Quote by - Neil Armstrong)
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
Like Dr Johnson, he endures not by reason of his works but by reason of his circumferential humanity [W G Grace] (Quote by - Neville Cardus)
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society (Quote by - John Ralston Saul)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life. (Quote by - Mary Ashton Livermore)
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life. (Quote by - Connie Mack)
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. (Quote by - Joseph R. Krutch)
Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well. (Quote by - Jeanette Desor)
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. (Quote by - Sojourner Truth)
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. (Quote by - Nelson DeMille)
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
I am a man; nothing human is alien to me. (Quote by - Terence)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence. (Quote by - Storm Jameson)
The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues (Quote by - Louis Wolfson)
Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!! (Quote by - Trey Parker)
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself (Quote by - Rebecca West)
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever Forever. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship Humanity needs a lesson in humility. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity. (Quote by - John Wesley)
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. (Quote by - Kalan)
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Passion is universal humanity Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Conservation is humanity caring for the future (Quote by - Nancy Newhall)
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Someday I want to be rich Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity That's how rich I want to be. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. [A Theory of Justice] (Quote by - John Rawls)
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music (Quote by - Billy Joel)
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Hell is an outrage on humanity When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. (Quote by - David Ehrenfeld)
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. (Quote by - Omar N Bradley)
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are For you show me what your idea of humanity is. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam] (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. (Quote by - E O Wilson)
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students What better books can there be than the book of humanity?. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. (Quote by - Henry Allen)
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. (Quote by - James Buchanan)
Every human heart is human. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity. (Quote by - Greg Norman)
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely It is absolutely touch and go ch one of us could make the difference. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
North Americans don't understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. (Quote by - R. M. Baumgardy)
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Love, hope, fear, faith: these make humanity; These are its' sign and note and character. (Quote by - Robert Browning Hamilton)
Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it, Dissolute man. Lave in it--drink of it Then, if you can. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Quote by - Socrates)
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. (Quote by - Charles Sumner)
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. (Quote by - Anatole France)
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. (Quote by - William Osler)
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. (Quote by - George Sand)
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. (Quote by - James Allen)
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' (Quote by - Ann Landers)
For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. (Quote by - Jermaine Jackson)
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. (Quote by - Thurgood Marshall)
The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core. (Quote by - Joseph Fabry)
Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack. (Quote by - Unknown)
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
For nothing human foreign was to him. (Quote by - James Thomson)
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way? (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. (Quote by - Thomas Woodrow Wilson)
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue' (Quote by - Imannuel Kant)
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Common sense is the genius of humanity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. (Quote by - F Scott Fitzgerald)
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. (Quote by - Voltaire)
This is a great loss, first and foremost for the Catholic Church and its hundreds of millions of believers, but also for humanity as a whole. (Quote by - Silvan Shalom)
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. (Quote by - Muhammad Yunus)
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity (Quote by - Hippocrates)
Humanity, you never had it to begin with. (Quote by - Charles Bukowski)
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. (Quote by - James Madison)
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. (Quote by - Lyndon B Johnson)
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. (Quote by - Euripides)
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. (Quote by - Walter Landor)
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?. (Quote by - E O Wilson)
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. (Quote by - Holden Caulfield)
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something! (Quote by - Gene Roddenberry)
Our true nationality is mankind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. (Quote by - Nelson Algren)
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. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings] (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me. (Quote by - Terence)
Fear makes us feel our humanity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
