Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is…

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

— Leslie Cockburn

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should…

— Bertolt Brecht

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

— Moshe Safdie

The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of…

— Elisabet Sahtouris

“Enmity is humanity's natural state.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special,…

— Tom Robbins

One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go…

— Frederick Douglass

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have…

— Gad Saad

If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful…

— Yasmin Ahmad

History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against…

— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for…

— Anonymous

Barack Obama was better as a campaigner than as a - as a president sometimes in this same position. It is easier when you…

— Chuck Todd

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

— Marcel Dzama

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which…

— Henry David Thoreau