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Humanity Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity…
- I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable…
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
- The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science reports what those…
More Humanity Quotes
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt