Humanity Quotes

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning

Love, Faith, Hope

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
Mehmet Oz

Yourself, Loneliness, Else

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

Survival, Animal, Begins

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

Art, Together, Moment

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
David Hockney

Lost, Thought, Service

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Nelson DeMille

Real, Everyone, Act

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Cannot, Earth, Stay

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith

Woman, Generosity, Virtue

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Book

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

Time, God, Respect

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon

Feelings, Fanaticism

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
Colin Quinn

Time, Great, Crazy

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
Billy Joel

Music, Yourself, Human

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch

Love, Grace, Crowning

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka

Music, Struggle, Nothing

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper

Freedom, Human, Party

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North Whitehead

Expression, Literature, Concrete

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
Debra Wilson

Integrity, Humility

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
Candace Cameron Bure

Love, Mom, True

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

Life, Play, Face

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre

Forgive, Cruelty, Punish

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank

Good, Together, Two

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Laurence Sterne

Men, Worst, Pay

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.
Ron Perlman

Interested, Role, Handle

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
Mos Def

Love, Peace, Idea

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
Timothy Radcliffe

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Pablo Casals

Live, Cannot, Others

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco

Democracy, Down, Before

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
Ron Fournier

Change, Crisis, Between

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
Ralph Fiennes

Simple, Someone, Together

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