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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)

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