Humanity Quotes
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I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
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There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.
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We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
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Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
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Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.
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To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
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Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.
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I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human being, and had great appreciation for the miracle of life and our existence on this earth.
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The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
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The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.
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How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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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.
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.