Humanity Quotes - page 2

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. (Joseph Addison)
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? View quote
Bell hooks
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. View quote
Vernor Vinge
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. View quote
Desmond Tutu
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. View quote
Wangari Maathai
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. View quote
Louis Pasteur
It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. View quote
Eric Hoffer
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. View quote
Marie Curie
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. (Marie Curie)
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. View quote
Franz Werfel
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. View quote
Voltaire
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity. View quote
Sigmund Freud
It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity. View quote
Albert Einstein
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. View quote
Martin Luther
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
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. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Humanity lives in its fiction. View quote
Blaise Cendrars
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead. View quote
John Updike