Humanity Quotes - Page 34

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.