Humanity Quotes
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
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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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I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
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We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.
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Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
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The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
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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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Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.
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No religion is higher than humanity.
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Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
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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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Humanity is the child of religion.
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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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There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.
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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.
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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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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
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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.
