Humanity Quotes
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.
It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.
There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Humanity inspires me, people inspire me, I've always been a people person, and I love people.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.
I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.
This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.
I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?
Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.
That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.
