Humanity Quotes
4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of…
— N. Scott Momaday
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
— Petrarch
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter…
— Edward Bellamy
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To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to…
— Tariq Ramadan
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It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so…
— Taslima Nasrin
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
— Clarence Thomas
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Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your…
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask…
— Tom Regan
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
— Victor Hugo
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be…
— Dean Koontz
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,…
— Paul Robeson
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As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity
— Paul Robeson
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Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what…
— Desmond Tutu
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The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and…
— Osama bin Laden
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then…
— Donny Deutsch
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Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
— Nelson Mandela
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He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl…
— Max Lucado
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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