Humanity Quotes

4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.... — Georg Brandes
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis… — Morihei Ueshiba
I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another.… — Peter Block
My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And… — Elie Wiesel
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.… — Horace Mann
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own… — William Golding
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces… — William Godwin
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ... — Lydia Millet
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. — Timothy Radcliffe
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so… — Henry Louis Gates
That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person. — Tony Campolo
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are… — Carlos Barrios
In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships. — Zoe Lister-Jones
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural… — Abbe Pierre
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on… — Mark Slouka
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity. — Jean Shepherd
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring. — Elias Lyman Magoon
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide.… — Carter Heyward
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. — Herman Kahn

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