Humanity Quotes
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When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.
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I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.
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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.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Everyone and everythig that humanity has ever loved, or cared for, has lived on our precious earth.
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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.
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
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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.
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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
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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.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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Literature is humanity talking to itself.
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If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
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Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
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Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
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When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.
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I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.
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Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.
