Humanity Quotes

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Above all nations is humanity.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.