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Humanity Quotes by Mark Twain
- Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
- I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
- Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
- It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most…
- To eat is human, to digest, divine
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
- It is your human environment that makes climate
- I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human…
- Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human…
- If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
- We are all alike, on the inside.
- But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word…
- Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that…
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the…
- I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval
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