Humanity Quotes

4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors

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
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result… — Andrea Bocelli
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you… — Alain de Botton
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. — Omar N. Bradley
Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam. — John O. Brennan
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. — Jacob Bronowski
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if… — Charlotte Bronte
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. — Phillips Brooks
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. — Robert Browning
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger… — William Jennings Bryan
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing… — Luther Burbank

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