Humanity Quotes
4081 quotes by 2171 authors
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The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands…
— Mary McCarthy
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The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in…
— Robert Alan Aurthur
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
— Seneca the Younger
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a…
— Mary McCarthy
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Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right…
— Cesar Chavez
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We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
— Cesar Chavez
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
— Albert Einstein
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
— Max Lerner
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
— Robert Kennedy
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
— Marya Mannes
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,…
— Henry Beston
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There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation…
— Woody Allen
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which…
— Nelson Mandela
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,…
— Margaret Mead
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
— Gary Gygax
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