Good Of Humanity Quotes

#1. I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

#2. Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

Rama Swami

#3. Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#4. Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

Sarada Devi

#5. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

Q-Tip

#7. Make a vow ...
That whatever happens in your life
That you use it for the good of humanity.

Timothy Pina

#8. There may come a day when internet comments sections are deemed, for the good of humanity and the sanity of civilization in general, to be a form of biohazard or metaphysical catastrophe.

Jonathan Kieran

#9. A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

James Payn

#10. I ask all those who hope to one day work for the good of humanity: never forget that even if you deliver up your body to be burned, you gain nothing if you have not Love. Nothing!

Paulo Coelho

#11. I am often wrong about the good of humanity.

Katie Heaney

#12. Ty Grady was a rude, insufferable, egotistical, stinking son of a bitch, and Zane was going to figure out how to tune him out. Otherwise, he just might give in to the pressure and kill the bastard, for the good of humanity.

Abigail Roux

#13. Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

David Suzuki

#14. Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou

#15. It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.

Marissa Meyer

#16. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

J.G. Holland

#18. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Isaac Newton

#19. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#20. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

Luke Myer

#21. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. True prayer does not seek God's help, but it focuses on what is good for everyday life and all of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

#24. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

Alexandre Dumas

#25. Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

Sukhwinder Singh

#26. It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Steve Maraboli

#27. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

Muhammad

#28. Of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music;

Gene Wolfe

#29. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

Tom Giaquinto

#30. If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Plato

#31. There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

#32. Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.

Ben Elton

#33. In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Fyodor Stepun

#34. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Ashley Montagu

#36. The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

Terence Winter

#37. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Plutarch

#38. I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Grimes

#39. The Socialists have found good the equality, and bad the inequality. Good the servants and bad the tyrants. I crossed the threshold of good and evil in order to live my life intensely. I live today and can not await tomorrow. The wait is of peoples and of humanity, so could not be my affair.

Renzo Novatore

#40. My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Lee Atwater

#41. Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?

Rosie O'Donnell

#42. We are paid for our daily labors by the pennies and dollars; we are paid in respect and gratitude when those labors consist of good deeds.

Charles Cross

#43. The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#44. At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Wislawa Szymborska

#45. Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.

Desmond Tutu

#46. The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.

Marilyn Manson

#47. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.

Sanober Khan

#48. The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

#49. It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#50. The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Marquis De Lafayette

#51. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#52. Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#53. May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#54. Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Lawrence Block

#55. Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, but
religious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.

Debasish Mridha

#56. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Roberto Benigni

#57. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. Mourn with those are sorrowful.
Be happy with those who are joyful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Jim Butcher

#60. The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck - good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

Edward O. Wilson

#61. Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

Matt Ridley

#62. Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world - everything is hidden in you.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#63. If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have. - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

Ellis Peters

#64. Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.

Frank Rich

#65. And just when you'd think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

Terry Pratchett

#66. Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base ...

D.H. Lawrence

#67. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]

David Foster Wallace

#68. Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

Jacques Tardi

#69. I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.

Daniel H. Wilson

#70. The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

Amy Wilentz

#71. God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them

James Rollins

#72. Adepts of either Good or Evil are relatively rare in human shape. Most of us are still amateurs, which is fortunate for us all, because even moderate experts of evil can cause enough harm among humanity as it is.

Anonymous

#73. The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

Frederick Lenz

#74. Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Irving Stone

#75. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that. I honestly believe that. I think we saw the way humanity works on that day, and while some of it was horrifying, so much of it was good.

David Levithan

#76. A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.

R. B. Kitaj

#77. So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Paulo Coelho

#78. Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety.

Philip Roscoe

#79. Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.

George M. Church

#80. If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

Pope John Paul II

#81. Faith is the gentleness of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#82. Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.

Kevin Spacey

#83. May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Pierre De Coubertin

#84. There's something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#85. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#86. Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil; with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.

Dexter Palmer

#87. Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting question. Personally, I don't think digital sounds good, but that's just my own feeling.

John Vanderslice

#88. But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Debbie Harry

#89. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

Tracy Kidder

#90. It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.

Alan Gratz

#91. Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.
For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.

Pierce Brown

#92. Good spirit, good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#94. I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

A. J. Jacobs

#95. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch

#96. 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

#97. If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

Pope John Paul II

#98. Humanity's relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesn't always yield good results.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#99. I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Brent Weeks

#100. Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Pierce Brosnan