Humanity Quotes

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Live, Evil

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
Bell Hooks

Time, Enough, Same

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Whole, Neighbor

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Sunshine

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Cannot

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Thinking, Cannot

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Nature, Justice, Law

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Lives, Himself, Universal

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Cannot, Often

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu

Human, Together, Bound

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

Religion, History, Art

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II

Through, Choice, Survive

War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Elie Wiesel

Gratitude, Person, Her

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Thought

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker

Care, Children, Left

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil, Individual, Behavior

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong

Important, Rather, Forever

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson

Understand, Learn, Means

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand

Great, Power, Enough

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. Wilson

Love, Around, Talk

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

Important, Lies, Pleasure

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon

Religion, God, Fear

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

Work, God, Progress

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

Boredom, Lies, Despair

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Henry Miller

Problems, Face, Either

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Alone, Few

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner

Respect, Rich, Lose

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