Explore Quotes on Humanity

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than_x000D_ is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal_x000D_ investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements._x000D_ France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,_x000D_ because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other_x000D_ the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the_x000D_ province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond_x000D_ life, beyond time, into eternity.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

We must remain human, even in the most difficult times …_x000D_ Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.