Humanity Quotes
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Shirley Hufstedler
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
John McCarthy
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
William Godwin
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles Henry Fowler
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I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
Bill Mollison
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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.
William Shakespeare
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
Sean Penn
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Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
Ali al-Naimi
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Freedom is a right, not only for humanity, but for all animals.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Mira Nair
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I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
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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
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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
Van Jones
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
Nikola Tesla
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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
Ernest Bevin
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Ernest Dimnet
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There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.
Eustace Conway
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Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust
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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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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Monica Edwards
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After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.
Brandon Bays
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
Chittaranjan Das