Humanity Quotes · Page 210

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above…

— H. L. Mencken

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

— Alice Moore Hubbard

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law…

— Sebastian Junger

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

— Mira Grant

“The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.”

— T.A. Uner

“Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where…

— Aberjhani

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I…

— John Hurt

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you…

— Eve Ensler

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes…

— Jack Kingston

May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways…

— William P. Young

“The only thing that is limiting me and you from attaining anything in life is what we know or what we don’t…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The fear of a man is snare.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who…

— Robert Muller

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to…

— Aldous Huxley

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs…

— Caroline Dries

“Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world…

— David Foster Wallace

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step…

— Colin Quinn

The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the…

— Adolf Hitler

The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence,…

— Steve Maraboli

“The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

— Jesse Jackson

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of…

— Errol Flynn

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

— Lisa Kristine

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really…

— John Vanderslice

The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to…

— David Droga

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher…

— African Spir

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get…

— Harry Shearer

“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change…

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

— John Constable

I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself,…

— Laurie R. King

“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon…

— Joseph Conrad

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

— Carmen Carrera

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological…

— R. Buckminster Fuller