Humanity Quotes

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

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

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.