Humanity Quotes - Page 88

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.

I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.