Humanity Quotes

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Books are humanity in print.

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.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

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 men, than any other association of men.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

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.

Books are humanity in print.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Without humility there can be no humanity.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Humanity is the sin of God.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

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.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Every human heart is human.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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.

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.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

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.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

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.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

After all, there is but one race: humanity

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

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.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

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.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.