Humanity Quotes

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. (Rita Rudner)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. View quote
André Maurois
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. View quote
Horace Mann
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. View quote
Georg Brandes
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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. View quote
George Soros
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. View quote
Jane Goodall
So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal. (Giuseppe Mazzini)
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. View quote
Walt Whitman
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
Petrarch
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. View quote
Georg Büchner
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. (Edmund Burke)
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. View quote
Margaret Mead
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. View quote
Henry Miller
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. View quote
Billy Joel
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. View quote
Joseph Addison