Top 100 For Humanity Quotes
#1. We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
Abdoulaye Wade
#3. Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.
Rebecca West
#4. Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.
Cameron Sinclair
#5. To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
Mark Edwards
#6. There is an end of human life but there is no end of human love for humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.
Tony Abbott
#8. No one had told me that the tax of playing big will be having to play big all the time. At first I chased my dream for me. Now I chase my dreams as a service for humanity. When I do so, people dare to chase their own dreams. They look up at me and get motivated to play big.
Iman Refaat
#9. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
William Vickrey
#10. If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
Niall Ferguson
#11. I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Victor Hugo
#12. No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
Charles Caleb Colton
#13. sadness is eternal, that weakness is another word for humanity, and that all will pass, all will pass. She
Joseph Fink
#14. Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
Sivananda
#15. The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.
Barbara Hambly
#17. I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
Cat Cora
#18. The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
Woodrow Wilson
#19. Appreciation is the best currency to encourage someone do something for humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.
Millard Fuller
#21. There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.
Monica Johnson
#22. From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
P.G. Wodehouse
#23. People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.
Craig Venter
#24. ...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#25. The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.
Richard Di Natale
#27. Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.
Richard Holloway
#28. When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.
Justin Rosenstein
#29. Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#30. The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
Piet Mondrian
#31. It's the same hope we have to hold for humanity - that we can transform our roles, roles constructed like so many doors for us to go through by history, and by and by transform the whole edifice of human relations.
Stan Goff
#32. sum up Casablanca in just four clipped, declarative sentences: "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back again. Boy gives up girl for humanity's sake.
Noah Isenberg
#33. Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.
Paul-Gordon Chandler
#35. It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
Amartya Sen
#36. Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God's Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14
Felix Wantang
#38. When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau
#39. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
Witold Gombrowicz
#40. The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
Steven Pinker
#41. Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.
Steven Weinberg
#42. I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.
Lisa Edelstein
#43. Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner
#44. My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
Franklin Chang Diaz
#45. Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.
John Scalzi
#46. If you are not an asset for humanity then you are a liability for humanity.
Deepak Burfiwala
#47. Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity
Jeff Foxworthy
#48. You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.
Jethro Tull
#49. Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.
John Niven
#50. Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.
Tony Dovale
#51. Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.
Harry Belafonte
#52. The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.
Abdu'l- Baha
#53. They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .
Frederick Lenz
#54. To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness ... Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
Maurice Blondel
#55. For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.
Frantz Fanon
#56. Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
Tasha Smith
#57. There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.
Corazon Aquino
#58. Education is worthy if it tells you that how you can be a blessing for humanity.
Deepak Burfiwala
#59. Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.
Benjamin Creme
#60. Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
John Hodgman
#61. Giving back is the greatest gift of love for humanity and the greatest source of joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#62. A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [ ... ] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity.
Paul Driessen
#63. I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.
Lea Michele
#64. There is no moral reason for humanity to continue, if its ends are limited to itself. And this is how we must stop seeing ourselves. This is why we destroy each other. If we disregard the life around us, why should we not be equally disregarded?
Paul Xylinides
#65. If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts ... Love is irresistible.
Dwight L. Moody
#67. I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water.
Emory Sharplin
#68. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#69. Not to destroy but to construct,
I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
that nations will come together
not to destroy but to construct
and that the future belongs to those
who accomplish most for humanity.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#70. A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar
#71. Jesus was crucified for humanity, I am being crucified for love.
Santosh Kalwar
#72. No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
Ray Kurzweil
#74. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
Harry Connick Jr.
#75. It is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#76. The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."
Leo Errera
#77. I married a woman from New Orleans, so I had family here. Post-Katrina, I had a number of friends call me up and say they wanted to do something to help the community - not just Habitat for Humanity or Red Cross, we've done that, but what can we do for the community.
James Coulter
#78. There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.
Chris Lowe
#79. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
Jacque Fresco
#81. My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.
Sugata Mitra
#82. When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
John Bradley-West
#83. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman
#84. When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
Malcolm X
#85. Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes ...
George Weigel
#86. We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.
Richard Rohr
#87. I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Frank B. Kellogg
#88. Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
Ravi Zacharias
#89. The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
Emma Goldman
#90. Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
Albert Einstein
#91. If we are expected to show a gentle compassion for humanity, shouldn't we all have a wash care label sewn into each & everyone of us?
Josh Stern
#92. I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
Imelda Marcos
#93. She really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it.
James Hilton
#94. Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking
humanity itself?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence Darrow
#96. So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#97. The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#98. Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
William Hazlitt
#99. And do you know, I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love for humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short, I am a hired servant, I expect my payment at once--that is, praise, and the repayment of love with love. Otherwise I am incapable of loving anyone.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#100. Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.
Christine Caine
