For Humanity Quotes
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.
Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.
Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.
Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.