Humanity Quotes

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independen...

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the...

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should ...

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses ...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the...

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter...

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think...

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who wou...

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to...

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other t...

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationshi...

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this p...

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation. Adam stood smiling a...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in...

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tr...

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are ...

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