Humanity Quotes

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
Jonathan Sacks

Religious, Present, Danger

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
will.i.am

Politics, Good, Business

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Thomas Mann

Future, Important, Foundation

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks

Jesus, Christ, Divinity

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Beah Richards

Education, Help, Human

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
Nicolas Cage

Character, Perfect, Strange

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes

Love, Compassion, Lying

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Ashley Montagu

Human, Born, Virtue

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
Daisaku Ikeda

Learned, Cannot, Tragedy

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
Daisaku Ikeda

Person, Control, Eyes

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
Daisaku Ikeda

Peace, Women, Men

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Country

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Alan Paton

Life, Try, Endure

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
King Abdullah II

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
Al Pacino

Often, Film, Tried

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Stanislav Grof

Hope, Today, Real

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

Leadership, Power, Special

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
Michael Sheen

Change, Great, Wisdom

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
Len Wein

Character, Same, Line

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Life, Against, She

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
Cat Cora

Family, Money, Children

I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
Cat Cora

Money, Positive, Fun

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
Cat Cora

After, Able, Ocean

I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
Cat Cora

Help, Goal, Personal

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet

Future, Past, Law

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
Sandra Cisneros

Live, Battle, Put

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Happiness, Star, Discovery

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand

Revolution, Makes, Knowing

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
Neil Sheehan

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
Emily Blunt

Family, Crisis, Simple

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