Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Marquis de Lafayette

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

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

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

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

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Jose Marti

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Ralph Ellison

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell

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

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu Reeves

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett