Humanity Quotes

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov

Love, Justice, Reason

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Flower, Politeness

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

Immature, Sober, Rebellious

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

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

Boredom, Lies, Despair

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
Oliver Tambo

Power, Truth, Help

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters

Nice, Compassion, Goodness

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

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Religion, Islam

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

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall

Ourselves, Pay, Highest

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward

Makes, Either, Breeds

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Sex, Giving

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison

Alone, Reason, Oppression

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu

Nice, Rediscover, Whites

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin

God, Together, Two

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates

Love, Art, Loved

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, May, Thought

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
Lee Atwater

Love, Nature, Good

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.
Jermaine Jackson

Time, Society, Reality

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
Hugo Chavez

Live, Human, Off

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology, Wrong, Reasons

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

History, Writing, Words

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
Imelda Marcos

Mother, Sleep, Earth

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

Great, Death, Real

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Live, Nothing

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth

Religion, Human, Poor

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Learn, Write

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