Humanity Quotes - page 3

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. (Thomas Ligotti)
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. View quote
Thomas Paine
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. View quote
William Hazlitt
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. View quote
M. H. Abrams
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sail on, O Ship of State Sail on, O Union, strong and great Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. View quote
Jean Arp
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. View quote
Georg Büchner
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Edgar Allan Poe)
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity. View quote
Mencius
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide... View quote
Emil Cioran
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. View quote
Jacques Chirac
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. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. (Jim Al-Khalili)
Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself. View quote
Norman Angell
The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls - no matter what their label - these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself. View quote
Max Brooks
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson