Humanity Quotes
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Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
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History teaches us that the cause of humanity is only advanced through strife. There’s no Renaissance without the Dark Ages.
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No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].
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No religion is higher than humanity.
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Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.
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Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
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There is nothing more important to improve humanity than education.
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I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
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I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
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We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.
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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
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I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
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It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.
