Humanity Quotes

4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with… — Henry David Thoreau
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. — James Bryce
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? — Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... — Pope John Paul II
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.… — Gregory Bateson
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. — George Santayana
I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the… — Adolf Hitler
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for… — Arleigh Burke
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence… — Raisa Gorbacheva
We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop… — Mark Hatfield
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any… — George S. Patton
Love is the life of humanity. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. — John Ruskin
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? — Maurice Maeterlinck
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been… — H. L. Mencken
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive… — Harry Chapin
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. — Pope John Paul II
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate… — George Sand
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.… — Martin Sheen
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — Michel de Montaigne
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there… — Isaac Asimov
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me… — George Bernard Shaw

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