Humanity Quotes · Page 78

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch…

— Seth Godin

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God…

— Max Anders

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

“The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel.…

— Martin Luther King Jr

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

— Jack Nicholson

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Money is not the only way to ‘oblige’ others with; that depends upon the capacity of the giver. You simply have to…

— Dada Bhagwan

I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world,…

— Pope Francis

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They…

— George Orwell

It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather…

— Frederick Lenz

“the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol…

— Alonzo King

Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is…

— John Dos Passos

“For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered…

— patricia highsmith

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine…

— James A. McDougall

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's…

— Andre Gide

Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support…

— Wangari Maathai

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face…

— Lawrence Hill

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated…

— Francis Parker Yockey

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do…

— Roisin Murphy

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try…

— Kitty Kelley

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and…

— Gloria Steinem

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

— William Wordsworth

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

— Alice Neel

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,…

— E. O. Wilson

We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,…

— Poul Hartling

The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of…

— Sri Aurobindo

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present,…

— Seneca the Younger

“In every day life, I try to communicate to sacred strangers in the bus, street, trains, neighbourhood, offices, shops, library, schools, university,…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will…

— Neil Armstrong

“Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.”

— Nocturnus Libertus

Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human…

— Hozier

“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”

— Sunday Adelaja

All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is…

— Dean Koontz

“Above humanity, where the airplanes fly and birds circle the thermals, silence stretches for eternity....”

— Virginia Alison