Humanity Quotes

4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live. — Clarence Darrow
The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place… — Alan Gussow
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of… — Ralph Ellison
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. — R. Buckminster Fuller
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went… — Steven Pinker
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people,… — Ronald Reagan
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:… — George Washington
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,… — George Washington
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether… — Mahatma Gandhi
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised… — Immanuel Kant
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. — William Wordsworth
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand… — Antonin Artaud
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more,… — John Keats
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you;… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view,… — Richard Bach
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together… — Unknown Author
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are… — Edmund Wilson

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