Humanity Quotes - Page 69

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.

When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.