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

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
Pierre de Coubertin

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich Schiller

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

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

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Frank B. Kellogg

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
Frank B. Kellogg

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
Theodor Herzl

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch

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

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Daniel Libeskind

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan

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

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
James Lovelock

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
Tom Cruise