Top humanity Quotes Collection

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Image of Francis Parkman
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
- Francis Parkman
Collection: Humanity
Image of Elon Musk
For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Humanity
Image of Daniel Quinn
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.
- Daniel Quinn
Collection: Humanity
Image of Alice Bailey
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.
- Alice Bailey
Collection: Humanity
Image of Octave Mirbeau
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
- Octave Mirbeau
Collection: Humanity
Image of Jean Sasson
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
- Jean Sasson
Collection: Humanity
Image of Christopher Morley
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
- Christopher Morley
Collection: Humanity
Image of Martha C. Nussbaum
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.
- Martha C. Nussbaum
Collection: Humanity
Image of Vandana Shiva
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Humanity
Image of Anna Pavlova
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.
- Anna Pavlova
Collection: Humanity
Image of Sivananda
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
- Sivananda
Collection: Humanity
Image of Desmond Tutu
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Humanity
Image of Susan Abulhawa
For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.
- Susan Abulhawa
Collection: Humanity
Image of Hugh Bonneville
Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.
- Hugh Bonneville
Collection: Humanity
Image of Mark Slouka
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.
- Mark Slouka
Collection: Humanity
Image of Edward Burnett Tylor
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.
- Edward Burnett Tylor
Collection: Humanity
Image of Joris-Karl Huysmans
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Collection: Humanity
Image of Rick Steves
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
- Rick Steves
Collection: Humanity
Image of Rowan Williams
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
- Rowan Williams
Collection: Humanity
Image of Blaise Cendrars
Humanity lives in its fiction.
- Blaise Cendrars
Collection: Humanity
Image of Rick Yancey
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
- Rick Yancey
Collection: Humanity
Image of Francis Parker Yockey
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
- Francis Parker Yockey
Collection: Humanity
Image of Yanni
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
- Yanni
Collection: Humanity
Image of Steven Galloway
This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or disaster. There are no grand moments where a person does or does not perform the act that defines their humanity. There are only moments that appear, briefly, to be this way.
- Steven Galloway
Collection: Humanity
Image of Lionel Trilling
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
- Lionel Trilling
Collection: Humanity
Image of Daniel H. Wilson
...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.
- Daniel H. Wilson
Collection: Humanity
Image of Thomas More
It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
- Thomas More
Collection: Humanity
Image of Joseph Rotblat
Above all remember your humanity.
- Joseph Rotblat
Collection: Humanity
Image of Frans de Waal
Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
- Frans de Waal
Collection: Humanity
Image of James D. Watson
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
- James D. Watson
Collection: Humanity
Image of Hakim Bey
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
- Hakim Bey
Collection: Humanity
Image of Isaiah Berlin
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
- Isaiah Berlin
Collection: Humanity
Image of Timothy Radcliffe
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
- Timothy Radcliffe
Collection: Humanity
Image of Georges Bataille
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
- Georges Bataille
Collection: Humanity
Image of Voltairine de Cleyre
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
- Voltairine de Cleyre
Collection: Humanity
Image of Maurice Blondel
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.
- Maurice Blondel
Collection: Humanity
Image of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Collection: Humanity
Image of Pope Leo XIII
To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
- Pope Leo XIII
Collection: Humanity
Image of Simon Doonan
Dressing down is a crime against humanity.
- Simon Doonan
Collection: Humanity
Image of Carol P. Christ
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
- Carol P. Christ
Collection: Humanity
Image of Hillel the Elder
In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
- Hillel the Elder
Collection: Humanity
Image of Fred Brooks
Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.
- Fred Brooks
Collection: Humanity
Image of Emile M. Cioran
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
- Emile M. Cioran
Collection: Humanity
Image of Robert Owen
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
- Robert Owen
Collection: Humanity
Image of Franz Josef Radermacher
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
- Franz Josef Radermacher
Collection: Humanity
Image of Joseph Glanvill
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.
- Joseph Glanvill
Collection: Humanity
Image of Laurence Overmire
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
- Laurence Overmire
Collection: Humanity
Image of Martin Buber
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
- Martin Buber
Collection: Humanity
Image of Sean MacBride
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.
- Sean MacBride
Collection: Humanity
Image of Tilda Swinton
There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.
- Tilda Swinton
Collection: Humanity