Humanity Quotes

• Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

  

  Modest Mussorgsky
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Humanity

• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. 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
  • Time
  • Long
  • Art

• We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Society
  • Humanity

• To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • Humanity

• Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Justice

• I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Humanity
  • Aching
  • Small Part

• The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Question

• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Humans
  • Drawing
  • Able

• A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Christian

• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Together
  • Humanity

• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.”

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Humanity
  • Drama
  • Crime

• We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Humanity

• The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Happiness
  • Discovery

• A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Value
  • Humanity

• Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Humanity

• What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture? It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them. We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly’s great character Pogo, who famously said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Murder

• My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Funny
  • Question
  • Humanity

• Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Moral

• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • World
  • Fire
  • Hero

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