Humanity Quotes

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

Die, Victory, Until

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

Life, Silence, After

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Cannot

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois

Love, Romantic, Two

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

Together, Learned, Series

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong

Important, Rather, Forever

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Thinking, Cannot

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Whole, Neighbor

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Sunshine

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

Religion, History, Art

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Lives, Himself, Universal

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II

Through, Choice, Survive

War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II

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

Human, Together, Bound

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker

Care, Children, Left

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Elie Wiesel

Gratitude, Person, Her

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

Knowledge, Science, Thought

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil, Individual, Behavior

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Live, Photograph

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon

Religion, God, Fear

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

Important, Lies, Pleasure

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

Work, God, Progress

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson

Understand, Learn, Means

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Problem, Quality

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand

Great, Power, Enough

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

Good, Friendly, May

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King

Evil, Lie, Black

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Henry Miller

Problems, Face, Either

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