Humanity Quotes

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

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

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

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

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.