humanity quotes

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

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If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

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What a beautiful world we're destroying.

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

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Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

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I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.

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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

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...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

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Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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The proper study of mankind is woman.

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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

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I am a man: nothing human is foreign to me.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

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All people are a single nation.

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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

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