Humanity Quotes

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

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.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.