Humanity Quotes

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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in… — Ansel Adams
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone… — Roseanne Barr
Life is a long lesson in humility. — James M. Barrie
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that… — Dave Barry
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in… — Simone de Beauvoir
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in… — Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do… — Joseph Addison
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. — Richie Benaud
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper… — Alfred Adler
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what… — Annie Besant
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. — Theodor Adorno
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. — Tony Blair
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of… — Emily Blunt

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