For Humanity Quotes

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

God save us from people who mean well.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Humanity is a comic role.

Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

Human faces are such a world!

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

The still, sad music of humanity.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.