For Humanity Quotes
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.