Humanity Quotes

... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the...

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity insp...

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for thei...

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do conf...

I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, ...

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are eith...

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it w...

Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the l...

We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it i...

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to bal...

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning wha...

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

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it d...

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an in...

The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the ...

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining th...

A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – dee...

Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed fro...

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of so...

We wear the mask that grins and lies.It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.This debt we pay to hum...

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...

I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish...

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories...

The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human ra...

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings n...

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even fi...

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right p...

To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who s...

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the...

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...

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.