Top 100 Humanity Humanity Quotes
#2. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us:
Joseph Campbell
#4. You may wonder what you can do for humanity. Humanity desperately needs peace. Be an advocate of peace and teach others to think about peace.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Look in the heart and write ... The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in reality speaking for humanity. Humanity will recognize itself in him, because it is human nature that has inspired the discourse. Life recognizes life!
Antonin Sertillanges
#6. Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
Elie Wiesel
#7. Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi
#8. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson
#9. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.
Kay Harding
#10. More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
#11. To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.
Debasish Mridha
#12. In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
Jim Blasingame
#13. Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.
Abraham Kuyper
#14. This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
Walter Lippmann
#15. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Tony Blair
#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. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.
AVA.
#19. A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.
Alexander Hamilton
#20. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#21. All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
Ernest Renan
#22. We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.
Luke Gracias
#23. The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes
#24. The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
Fethullah Gulen
#25. The new humanity that is created around Jesus is not a humanity that is always going to be successful and in control of things, but a humanity that can reach out its hand from the depths of chaos, to be touched by the hand of God.
Rowan Williams
#26. I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
James Ellroy
#27. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.
Sigmund Freud
#28. I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
Keith Buckley
#29. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
Rebecca West
#31. The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur
Gene Youngblood
#32. Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
#33. Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
Emily Post
#34. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#35. Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.
Dalai Lama
#36. One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.
Hock G. Tjoa
#37. What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
Jeremy Rifkin
#38. 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
#39. The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.
Matthew Healy
#40. Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm.
Hannah Arendt
#42. The greatest gift of life is love, but not many people seem to feel it or even understand the meaning of it.
Mouloud Benzadi
#43. Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
C.S. Lewis
#44. In the garden of humanity there are tigers and lion, deer and doves. Deer and doves live carefully but with beauty and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.
Dalai Lama
#47. You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being.
David Mitchell
#48. Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.
Mike Love
#50. Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
Antonio Porchia
#52. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#53. The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
Anthony Pan
#56. everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.
AVA.
#57. There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
#58. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#59. We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
Nelson Mandela
#60. Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them.
George Ritzer
#61. If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been.
Martha Brockenbrough
#62. I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
John Quincy Adams
#63. You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.
Daniel Nayeri
#64. We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William Shakespeare
#65. The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.
Ravi Zacharias
#66. First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at
telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.
Allen Verhey
#67. The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#69. What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened.
Steven Pinker
#70. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
#71. For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
Ryan Coogler
#72. You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#73. Say what you feel, because your last breath determines your last speech.
Aloysius Jnr
#74. We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.
Caspar Henderson
#75. May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory
Mizuo Shinonome
#76. Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.
Albert Schweitzer
#77. Imperfection is the greatness of humanity
Valgame
#78. Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#79. Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.
Stephanie Beatriz
#80. Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.
Tracy Rees
#82. But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..
James Joyce
#83. The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.
Jamie Le Fay
#84. It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.
Samantha Young
#85. Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
George Jonas
#86. Combining storytelling, humanity, and laughter will give you a huge advantage in your public speaking and the odds are good that you already have all the raw material you need.
David Nihill
#87. Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.
Michel Faber
#88. Perception believed is reality achieved
Andy August
#89. There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of
heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.
James Allen
#91. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
Ingrid Betancourt
#92. For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
Bruce Lipton
#93. Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati Roy
#94. I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring
#95. The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
Jill Tarter
#96. In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.
Laura Schlessinger
#97. In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.
Martin Amis
#98. Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
John Steinbeck
#99. Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.
Rob Portman
#100. One religion, one civilisation, above all is Love and Humanity, respectively.
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