Humanity Quotes · Page 98

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

— Willa Cather

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”

— Charlotte Brontë

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

— Pope Francis

I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply.

— Lee Isaac Chung

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

— Martin Heidegger

“I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.”

— Liza M. Wiemer

Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe…

— Pema Chodron

“If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you…

— Sunday Adelaja

Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created…

— Laurence Fishburne

“That's the funny thing about America - the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are…

— Abraham Verghese

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each…

— Sara Maitland

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the…

— Krista Tippett

The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's…

— Gail Bradbrook

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the…

— Meg Mullins

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized…

— Anonymous

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to…

— Shukla Bose

“Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure…

— Eve Ensler

“I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life,…

— Kahlil Gibran

“And so there’s a struggle, or a contest, I guess you could say, all the time, it seems to me. And remorse,…

— Elizabeth Strout

We are often a people of quantity. But we forget that Allah also looks at quality. For example, a single good deed…

— Sister Yasmin Mogahed

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes…

— George Herbert

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

— Alan Kay

“The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

— Lester R. Brown

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

— Dalai Lama

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

— Tarana Burke

“Peace for thyself is the peace for thy neighbour which begins with a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

— Gary Gygax

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

“But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.”

— Idries Shah

“Humanity’s saving grace are the weird fucked-up people I call my friends.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

— Oscar Wilde

“In a world dominated by screens, stepping offline is a subversive act of self-care and rebellion.”

— Ken Breniman

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leaders build bridges; and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls; and invent excuses to divide.”

— Mamur Mustapha

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

— Jaggi Vasudev