Humanity Quotes
4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors
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The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it…
— George Pelecanos
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Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they…
— Charles M. Blow
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One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much…
— Marshall Sahlins
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on…
— Mary Ruefle
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There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for…
— Eustace Conway
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My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
— Franklin Chang Diaz
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No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race,…
— John Astin
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Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table…
— Alice Waters
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The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle…
— Alfred Adler
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify…
— Alan Paton
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath.…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
— Wole Soyinka
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
— Wole Soyinka
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Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief…
— Ed Mayo
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else,…
— Paul Klee
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.…
— Ernest Renan
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