Humanity Quotes

Trees're always a relief, after people.

Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & fal...

But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on ...

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the mir...

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite ...

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed ...

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil ...

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to k...

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than n...

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our taste...

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the huma...

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to ...

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everyth...

It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that ...

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a...

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what ...

This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nause...

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our sto...

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with d...

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of i...

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interestin...

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can ...

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything sho...

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the cl...

Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettin...

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intang...

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and d...

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mos...

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes d...

Teach me to speak the language of men.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...

The StadiumHave you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and list...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so m...

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almo...

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads...

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of ha...

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to fee...

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, defor...

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overhea...

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some ...

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....

It's a little weird that I'm getting an award for being nice and generous and kind... which is what ...

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previous...

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and t...

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multipla...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger th...

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-ter...

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one b...

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad...

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnifi...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize human...

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or real...

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in un...

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protect...

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks...

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the li...

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factional...

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above al...

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...