Humanity Quotes

4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. — Aberjhani
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. — Unknown Author
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can… — Abdallah II
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith… — Lionel Trilling
As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of… — Edward Abbey
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a… — Immanuel Kant
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the… — Richard Henry Lee
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long… — Eugene V. Debs
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye… — Chinua Achebe
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in… — Erich Fromm
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception… — Walter Benjamin
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we… — Hannah Arendt
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. — Horace
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity… — Ralph Ellison
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by… — Henry A. Kissinger
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb.… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Humanity, you never had it to begin with. — Charles Bukowski
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. — Blaise Pascal
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by… — Leo Tolstoy
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman

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