Humanity Quotes

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.