Humanity Quotes

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautiou...

Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human pe...

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someon...

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might th...

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an...

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiet...

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at lea...

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I ...

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a ...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garmen...

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

God save us from people who mean well.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. ...

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

Life, how I have dreaded you," said Rhoda, "oh, human beings, how I have hated you! How you have nud...

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us ...

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be...

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardo...

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not ...

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into...

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark,And the living nations wait,Each sequestered...

Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, th...

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, th...

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering ...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in gene...

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation ...

Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the...

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise me...

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? W...

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get p...

I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always ...

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the pe...

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme...

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the futur...

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unle...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentime...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentime...

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do no...

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to ...

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be bet...

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my fai...

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind,...

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for cent...

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the...

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history,...

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the...

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual le...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings mak...

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover man...

We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to brin...

Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown?

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - ...

Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic b...

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding g...

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unl...

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m...