For Humanity Quotes

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

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.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

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!

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.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity