Humanity Quotes

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged h...

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn...

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look...

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need ...

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold...

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, t...

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day ...

You can love completely without complete understanding.

We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel...

Humanity is a comic role.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper...

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon t...

Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its statio...

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will de...

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one qualit...

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are mom...

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my...

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fil...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life....

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow...

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to tr...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders ...

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happi...

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an ins...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular mess...

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in ...

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and ...

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony betw...

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we ...

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed...

He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that ever...

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he ...

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each ind...

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into obl...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is co...

There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and ...

Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathe...

And," my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's...

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both ro...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become king...

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the m...

What need does the earth have of us?

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...

War is a defeat for humanity.

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable...

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect compreh...

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confus...

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's k...

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power ...

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their characte...

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines....

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So m...

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the det...

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that...

We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly incre...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humani...

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend foreve...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so w...

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They...

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfoli...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any o...

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to brea...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...