Humanity Quotes

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

... humility + humor = humanity.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

Above all remember your humanity.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

The voices of the people are the voices of God.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.