Humanity Quotes

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.
Lea Michele

Work, Fan, Habitat

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

God, Liberty, Matter

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki

Peace, Men, Through

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Ernestine Rose

Husband, Wife, Justice

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
Octavia Butler

Future, Past, Human

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
Sri Chinmoy

Long, Rest, Perfection

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver

Writer, Fiction, Poet

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Problems, Solved

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Risks, Acceptable

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Arthur Henderson

War, Free, Forever

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
Ron Perlman

Work, Best, Business

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.
Ron Perlman

Great, Characters, Deals

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
Andrew Weil

Giving, Others, Old

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

Life, Time, End

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
Willard Gaylin

Human, Same, Themselves

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
William Godwin

Love, Happiness, Good

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

Future, Forward, May

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
Angela Merkel

Christian, Place, Wrong

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

Moral, Danger, Weapons

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

Life, Art, Knowledge

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

Against, Committed, Crimes

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Ben Okri

Human, Mean, Fiction

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright

God, Adversity, Face

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor

Nothing, Earth, Except

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson

Learn, Genius, Forces

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
Alveda King

Family, Abortion, Attack

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Wislawa Szymborska

Life, Good, Creative

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
Ethan Hawke

Money, Question, Turn

Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
Wesley Snipes

Art, Through, Artist

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