Humanity Quotes
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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 -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
George Eliot
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The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner -
I think that when humans get around to exploring and building cities and towns on Mars, it will be viewed as one of the great times of humanity, a time when people set foot on another world and had the freedom to make their own world.
Robert Zubrin -
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Ezra Pound -
Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.
Cathy O'Neil -
Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust -
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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 -
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Terry Eagleton -
My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a sense, black people have kept this country alive and given us our entire musical heritage.
Harry Dean Stanton -
I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
Bernard Berenson -
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams -
Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.
Haris Pasovic -
Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
Rowan Williams -
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
Erica Jong -
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
Carson McCullers -
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
Elizabeth Goudge