Top 100 Humanity Is Quotes
#2. The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity, is how I explain it to Sarah.
Jed McKenna
#3. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
Audrey Hepburn
#4. Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.
Suzy Kassem
#5. If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
Rudolf Steiner
#6. The key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They need goals to strive for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity.
Zaman Ali
#8. Technology with out humanity is calamity.
Ted Agon
#9. Bao is the acceptance that mankind is part of the fabric of the universe, not the purpose of it. Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.
Sheri S. Tepper
#10. I also wish you to look at the Bridge of My only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, for it reaches from Heaven to earth, that is, that the earth of your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby.
Catherine Of Siena
#11. We often concentrate on the negative side of the humanity, but humanity is growing, maturing every day, and to sign the song of a better future.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#13. Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#14. It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
Robert Burns
#15. I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked.
C.M. Stunich
#16. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
George Whitman
#17. Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being. He does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.
Rod Serling
#18. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.
D.J. Niko
#19. Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
Russell Baker
#20. The key to opening the secret of humanity is to love and understand the beauty of it.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#22. I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
Gary Shteyngart
#23. Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
Ann M. Fudge
#24. Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. The one thing we truly don't understand about God, about Life, and about Humanity is that we are ONE!
Timothy Pina
#26. Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
Khalil Gibran
#27. The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
Joe Flanigan
#28. Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
Karl Kraus
#29. Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.
Nenia Campbell
#30. Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
Louie Psihoyos
#31. Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
Omar N. Bradley
#32. The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.
Amina Mama
#33. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
#34. People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.
John Taylor Gatto
#35. Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
Novalis
#36. The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
#37. All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#39. Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis Bacon
#40. I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Frank Herbert
#43. The greatest gift we can ever give to humanity is to ... inspire it's children!
Timothy Pina
#44. That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine
#45. Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#46. God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.
Lawrence Kushner
#47. The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
Bronislaw Huberman
#48. Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
Pat Conroy
#49. Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.
Howard Thompson
#50. Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
Isaac Asimov
#51. A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond
#53. Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
Elie Wiesel
#54. Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable.
John Stuart Mill
#56. We live in a time that hungers for HOPE; to believe in MIRACLES and DREAMS, for without these soul gems, humanity is ripped at the seams.
Debi Tibbles
#57. Do you know why it is that, even today, women are counseled to scream "fire" instead of "rape"? Because the fundamental truth about humanity is that most people would rather look away.
Michelle Hodkin
#58. The sickness of humanity is only added to, when people begin things that others are trying to stop
Rod Smith
#59. All is as it was," she said softly to the young Q. Turning to Janeway, she added, "Humanity is a stubborn thing, Kathryn Janeway. It hopes, even when all hope is gone.
Kirsten Beyer
#60. A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.
Auliq Ice
#61. The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Ashley Montagu
#62. It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
Pope Francis
#63. Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Andrea Dworkin
#64. No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
David Foster Wallace
#65. Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
Colin Quinn
#66. Intellect without humanity is not good enough ... what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
Ashley Montagu
#68. To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.
Roberto Aguire
#69. [M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [ ... ] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that humanity is very much in debt to such people, whether it chooses to acknowledge the debt or not.
Christopher Hitchens
#70. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.
Maria Montessori
#71. The Universalists believe
that God is too good to damn [humanity],
while the Unitarians believe
that [humanity] is too good to be damned by God.
Thomas Starr King
#72. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#73. A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Yehuda Berg
#74. From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
Immanuel Kant
#75. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
H.L. Mencken
#76. Humanity is about raising up each other for good.
Zaman Ali
#77. I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Terence
#78. Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.
Norman O. Brown
#79. 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. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.
Horace Mann
#80. I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#82. The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.
Vladimir Nabokov
#83. A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
Confucius
#84. I am big believer in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.
J. Michael Straczynski
#85. Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.
Joe Hill
#86. In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
Leo Tolstoy
#87. I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#89. The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
James Russell Lowell
#91. I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - simply because we're not fully in control of our environment.
Paul Di Filippo
#93. In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
Olaf Stapledon
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#97. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
A.E. Samaan
#98. The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity ... is to an incalculable extent a history of error.
Frank Kermode
#100. Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelty evolves into evil.
Some
humans aren't human at all,
despite how they appear.
Humanity is what lives inside
people,
harbored beneath skin, flesh,
and bone.
Ellen Hopkins
