Humanity Quotes

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
Wallace Shawn

Around, Mothers, Full

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
David Mitchell

Seems, Race, Groups

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
Christopher Dawson

Nature, Men, Human

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
Terry Eagleton

Justice, Problem, Nation

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Terry Eagleton

Indulge, Favours

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond

Become, Chair, Auschwitz

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
John Comenius

Religion, End, Put

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner

Love, Ugly, Unique

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner

Slow, Strides, Centuries

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Ella Maillart

Different, Made, Motives

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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Faith, Giving, Him

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Dario Argento

Perfect, Paradise

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
Henning Mankell

Great, End, Human

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.
Evo Morales

Friend, Worst, Capitalism

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
Sun Myung Moon

Future, Past, Present

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Paul Nurse

Science, Force, View

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Terence

Whatever, Interest, Concerns

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy

Advice, Survive, Optimist

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
John McCarthy

Honesty, Opinion, Face

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw

Family, Romantic, May

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
Reed Hastings

Age, Technology, Stone

Humanity is the sin of God.
Theodore Parker

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Mira Nair

Knowledge, Real, Trying

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
Mira Nair

Politics, Help, Human

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
Hans Kung

History, War, End

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
Rowan D. Williams

God, Heart, Living

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Frank B. Kellogg

Work, Peace, Cause

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
Frank B. Kellogg

Peace, Time, Hope

I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel

Art, Why, Wanted

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
John B. S. Haldane

May, Thought, Cannot

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