Humanity Quotes - page 4

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. (John Buchan)
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. View quote
Alan Paton
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. View quote
Václav Havel
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. View quote
Thomas Mann
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. View quote
Anatole France
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. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. View quote
Theodor Herzl
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. View quote
Tom Robbins
In this book, I try to understand the challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond. This is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face. (Nick Bostrom)
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. View quote
Herman Melville
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Common sense is the genius of humanity. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? View quote
Mark Twain
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear makes us feel our humanity. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. (Samuel R. Delany)
... humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity. View quote
Joseph Rotblat