Humanity Quotes

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.

The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

God is the Creator of all things.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.