Humanity Quotes

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the street...

By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while anothe...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebo...

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and ma...

There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don't... I do...

Ultron: Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.The Vision: I suppose we're both disappoin...

We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note t...

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which ...

Whether is is a good or bad deal depends, for money does not always keep its value, unlike mankind, ...

A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jum...

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say ...

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still rem...

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (...

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of th...

When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More sc...

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagin...

Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stoneMan is not to rule o...

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When yo...

Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him ...

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful...

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love...

In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not poss...

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a th...

Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient ...

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views ...

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that lo...

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of hi...

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transf...

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of t...

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of...

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen...

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch brea...

Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorde...

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy s...

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be...

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man,...

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with ...

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdere...

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...t...

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing materi...

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that ...

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of m...

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt...

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear a...

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th...

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest mig...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...

I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice...

People want to share but they usually don’t.People don’t talk to each other about real things becaus...

... 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...