Humanity Quotes

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
Jerzy Kosinski

Work, Nothing, Person

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
Brit Marling

Time, Best, Play

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Graham Nash

War, Future, Human

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Tim Berners Lee

General, Optimist, Suppose

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.
Howard Stern

Work, Show, Uplifting

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
Martin Sheen

Experience, Country, Whole

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
Bjorn Lomborg

Life, Future, Past

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Sandra Cisneros

Try, Honest, Speak

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly

Art, Powerful, Real

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Mary McCarthy

Character, Bad, Eyes

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
James Larkin

Off, Body, Growth

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.
Jermaine Jackson

Society, Place, Interest

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito

Family, Yourself, Saying

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls

Life, Great, Pain

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund Husserl

Life, Work, Spiritual

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami

Human, Movie, Beings

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami

Politics, Society, Political

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
Arthur Keith

War, Used, Force

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Peace, Great, War

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy de Gourmont

War, Against, Labor

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
Laura Marling

Change, May, Trying

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
Leland Stanford

Himself, Individual, Full

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo

Happiness, Power, Path

'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
Daniel H. Wilson

Future, Storm, Face

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr

Alone, Live, Reason

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
Pierre de Coubertin

Games, Springtime, Olympic

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
Diane Keaton

Famous, Skills, Tend

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes

Time, Truth, Away

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
Carla Gugino

Important, Actor, Observe

Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.
James Hansen

Nothing, Control, Dangerous

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