Humanity Quotes

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

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.