Humanity Quotes - Page 11

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.

The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.