Humanity Quotes

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.

I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Paper is more patient than man.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.