Humanity Quote by Arthur Peacocke

“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes, yet surrendering…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed,…

— Francois Fenelon

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good…

— John Stuart Mill

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true…

— Will Ferguson

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and…

— Dean Koontz

“Humanity was never meant for mediocrity. Yet many among us are now, and will forever remain, limited by their profound lack of understanding. Some…

— Richard Duarte

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The essence of being human is to live for the sake of others.

— Senoraroy

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within…

— John Desmond Bernal

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and…

— George Stanley

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing…

— Thomas Huxley

“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the…

— Melissa West