Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
~By Jean Arp ~
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
~By Robert Burns ~
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
~By Rita Rudner ~
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
~By Gary Gygax ~
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
~By David O. McKay ~
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
~By Jose Marti ~
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
~By Paul Allen ~
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
~By King Abdullah II ~
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Above all nations is humanity.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
~By Richard von Weizsaecker ~
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
~By Voltaire ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
~By James Payn ~
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.
~By Masami Akita ~
Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.
~By Ramman Kenoun ~
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
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.
~By Tom Glazer ~
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
~By William Wordsworth ~
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
~By Bell Hooks ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
~By Billy Joel ~
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
~By Anatole France ~
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
~By Mark Twain ~
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
~By Robert Frank ~
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
~By Lee Atwater ~
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
~By Charles Sumner ~
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
~By Dario Argento ~
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
~By Horst Koehler ~
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
~By Charles Sumner ~
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
~By Andre Maurois ~
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
~By Alain Badiou ~
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~By Marquis de Lafayette ~
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
~By Jean Paul ~
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
~By John Comenius ~
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.
~By Guglielmo Marconi ~
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
~By Nong Duc Manh ~
My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.
~By Nicholas Drapela ~
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~By Hans Kung ~
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
~By Ansel Adams ~
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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.
~By Hall Caine ~
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
~By Graham Nash ~
I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.
~By Robert Barany ~
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
~By Vivian Campbell ~
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
~By E. O. Wilson ~
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
~By Lucy Stone ~
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By John Buchan ~
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
~By Rebecca West ~
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
~By Thomas Day ~
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~By Herman Kahn ~
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
~By Alan Paton ~
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
~By Robert Cailliau ~
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
~By Cesar Chavez ~
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
War is a defeat for humanity.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
~By Willard Gaylin ~
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
~By Omar Bongo ~
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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