Humanity Quotes - Page 64

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity

As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.