Humanity Quotes - page 6

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. (Buckminster Fuller)
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [Entwerfende] part, the latter the executive part. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. View quote
Frederick Soddy
Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity. View quote
José Martí
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level - man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology. View quote
Rollo May
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. View quote
Clarence Thomas
When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil. View quote
James Madison
The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through. View quote
Kylie Minogue
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers. (Jean-Paul Marat)
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. View quote
Hans Küng
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. View quote
James Buchanan
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. View quote
Alain de Botton
One can't love humanity. One can only love people. View quote
Graham Greene
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days. View quote
Francis Parkman
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males. View quote
Gary Gygax
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours. (Eusebius of Caesarea)
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. View quote
M. H. Abrams
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. View quote
Alfred Adler
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. View quote
Cat Stevens