Humanity Quotes
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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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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
Peter Diamandis
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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
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Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Cynthia Ozick
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound
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Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
Elena Ferrante
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If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Ernestine Rose
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I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
Svetlana Alexievich
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit
African Spir
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Herbert Spencer
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At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
Ethan Hawke
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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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When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.
Hillary Clinton
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Seneca the Younger
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In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
Walter Wink
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
Henry Rollins
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