Humanity Quotes

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.

Your humanity is your instrument.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.