Humanity Quotes

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
Lion Feuchtwanger

Someone, Facts, Anyway

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
M. H. Abrams

Long, Place, Ourselves

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
Mark Edwards

War, Failure, Often

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Jared Polis

Time, Long, Her

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.
Deborah Ann Woll

Nature, Fear, Whole

What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.
Peter Facinelli

Great, Book, Battle

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk

Nothing, Used, Films

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
J. Courtney Sullivan

Love, Women, Poetry

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?
Julian Sands

Film, Less, Values

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
Claudio Hummes

Love, Judge, Jesus

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
Tony Hillerman

Try, Books, Reflect

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

Giving, Union, Parties

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
Ariel Dorfman

Forget, Free, Violence

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.
Casey Kasum

Success, Positive, Human

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
Susan Sullivan

Work, Great, Yourself

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
Nong Duc Manh

Life, Human, Cannot

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Roberto Unger

Different, Moral, Within

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Roberto Unger

Great, Fire, Social

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
David Niven

War, Done, Unselfish

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.
Gene Wolfe

Talking, Says, Rewarding

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

True, Everything, May

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
Keegan Allen

Love, Great, Lost

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel

Religion, God, Art

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
Alan Rudolph

Life, Find, Able

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
Anthony LaPaglia

Work, God, Whole

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

Matter, Idea, Space

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
David Wenham

Nice, Crazy, Character

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.
Roy Harper

Together, Different, State

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren

Legal, Made, Challenge

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
Paul Allen

Forward, Care, Possible

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