Humanity Quotes
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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.
William Wordsworth
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
Joseph Rotblat
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There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.
Tilda Swinton
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We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
Sean O'Casey
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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
Confucius
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Christ's character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.
Elton Welsby
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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.
Marcel Proust
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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Cesare Beccaria
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Ezra Pound
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Everyone and everythig that humanity has ever loved, or cared for, has lived on our precious earth.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
Thomas Keating
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The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.
Christian Harrison
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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
Joseph Rotblat
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At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
Russell Hornsby
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
William Hazlitt
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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Terry Eagleton
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The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Paul Goodman
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I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.
Dean Mitchell
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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
Rowan Williams
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
Seneca the Younger