The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert

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

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin

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

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
Jeremy Rifkin

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

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

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

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

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
William J. Clinton

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

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

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

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