Above all nations is humanity,

“The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own…

— Isaac Asimov

“If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when…

— Dean Koontz

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because…

— Isaac Asimov

“This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most…

— Julian Simon

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ...…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

“Is there any holy beings like human beings?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character,…

— Samuel George Morton

“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after…

— Sigmund Freud

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in…

— James Madison

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.…

— Calvin Coolidge

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake