Top 100 Humanity's Quotes
#1. Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
Kanye West
#3. Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.
Sarah Parcak
#4. We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
#5. The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Klaus Schwab
#6. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#7. Chance is when you look at the world through humanity's eyes; providence is when you look at the world through God's eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.
David Mitchell
#9. I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?
Joshua Foer
#10. The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
William McKinley
#11. Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#12. All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
Konrad Lorenz
#13. We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.
Jeremy Gilley
#15. God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.
Lee Strobel
#16. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
Steven Pinker
#17. 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
#18. Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Ben Bernanke
#19. When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
Deepak Chopra
#21. The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great failure as a humane species.
Bryant McGill
#22. The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.
Pope Francis
#23. I really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.
Yanni
#24. Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
Miguel Nicolelis
#25. Each narrow cell in which we dwell
Is a foul and dark latrine,
And the fetid breath of living Death
Chokes up each grated screen,
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.
Oscar Wilde
#26. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion.
Naomi Klein
#27. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.
Barack Obama
#28. However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.
Walden Bello
#29. The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.
Flaubert
#31. When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#32. To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
Tahir Shah
#33. It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake
Antonia Fraser
#35. I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity's poverty of spirit. I
Paulo Coelho
#36. Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#37. Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Mahnaz Afkhami
#38. "Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#39. I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
Timothy Radcliffe
#40. Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond
#41. All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.
Neale Donald Walsch
#42. Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.
Paul Hawken
#43. The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.
James MacDonald
#44. That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.
Deborah A. Beasley
#45. Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.
Brendon Burchard
#46. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#47. 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
#48. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.
Dexter Palmer
#49. Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
George Will
#50. The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.
C.S. Lewis
#51. We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
Albert Schweitzer
#52. Immortality affords you the opportunity to witness history in the making. Humanity's triumphs and its cruelties, both. It is both a high price to pay and a priceless gift, to carry the weight of that knowledge.
Chloe Neill
#53. Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.
Deepak Chopra
#54. When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
Robert H. Lieberman
#55. Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
Martin Rees
#56. I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker
#57. For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.
Zack Snyder
#58. 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
#59. We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.
Thomas McGuane
#60. Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future-and of the future of America.
Gerald R. Ford
#61. We must avoid the caricature that science means formula or a lack of humanity in work. In fact, science is one of humanity's most creative pursuits. I believe that applying it to entrepreneurship will unlock a vast storehouse of human potential.
Eric Ries
#62. Superheroes are works of fiction - created by individuals to hold up humanity's finest attributes and remind us that the choices we make in life have profound consequences. They also embody some of the qualities we aspire to, and as such, we can learn a great deal from them.
Anonymous
#63. Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess - could the whole world be the pea under my mattress? - I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.
Tom Robbins
#64. The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
Rowan Williams
#65. One Day World Peace Will Be More Than One's Imagination ... It Will Be Humanity's Fact.
Timothy Pina
#66. Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.
Daisaku Ikeda
#68. Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.
Frans De Waal
#69. The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
Robert Alan Aurthur
#70. Humanity's advancement is founded on looking for new possibilities instead of being bound by general principles.
Hiromu Arakawa
#71. There are many roads towards war but just one towards peace ... which must begin with a heart that has compassion and empathy for all of humanity's children!
Timothy Pina
#72. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
Barry Mazur
#74. War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
Pope John Paul II
#75. I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.
Chris Hardwick
#76. Such was humanity's self-love, Nadar concluded, that most were inevitably disappointed when they finally saw a true image of themselves.
Julian Barnes
#77. The great men of all areas of humanity's activities never tried to be a better version of someone else. They simply brought to the table a full life's cultivation of their particular skill sets, experiences, and passions, and we must do the same.
Chris Matakas
#78. As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
Aubrey De Grey
#79. Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve
Simon Pegg
#80. Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.
Lester R. Brown
#81. It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
Vanna Bonta
#82. We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.
Dalai Lama
#83. Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.
Christopher Flavin
#84. The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
#85. Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.
Mario J. Lucero
#86. One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
Ernest Cline
#87. Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.
Martin Rees
#88. Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.
Harry Belafonte
#89. The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.
Bryant McGill
#90. God is the inevitability of humanity's search for true meaning.
Jared Brock
#91. It can be argued that the computer is humanity's attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.
Ammaar Shaukat Reshi
#92. Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.
Paul Di Filippo
#93. All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said ... 'are only degrees of theft.
Miguel Syjuco
#94. There was another intelligence out there, close enough to touch. And even if they were now gone, then the mere existence of their handiwork was wonder enough to fundamentally change humanity's view of the universe.
Alastair Reynolds
#95. Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
Terry Pratchett
#96. Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
Haruki Murakami
#97. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Harold Bloom
#98. Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
Don DeLillo
#99. There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.
Lav Diaz
#100. You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
Timothy Leary
