Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
~By Robert Burns ~
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 ~
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
~By David Niven ~
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
~By Anatole France ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~By George Soros ~
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 saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
~By Ezra Pound ~
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
~By Mark Edwards ~
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
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.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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 ~
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
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 ~
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
~By James Lovelock ~
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
~By Rebecca West ~
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
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 ~
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
~By Vartan Gregorian ~
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
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 ~
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
~By Charlie Dent ~
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
~By Hans Kung ~
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
~By William Hazlitt ~
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
~By Martin Luther ~
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
~By Richard von Weizsaecker ~
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
~By Charles Wagner ~
If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.
~By Shelley Morrison ~
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 ~
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Humanity is the sin of God.
~By Theodore Parker ~
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
~By Charles Colson ~
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 ~
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
~By Stewart Brand ~
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
~By Nelson DeMille ~
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
~By Ron Perlman ~
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
~By Robert Purvis ~
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
~By Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ~
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
~By Nelson Algren ~
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
Without humility there can be no humanity.
~By John Buchan ~
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
~By Robert Fisk ~
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
~By Johann Gottlieb Fichte ~
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
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.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
~By Franz Werfel ~
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
~By Henri Bergson ~
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 ~
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
~By Ernest Renan ~
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~By Georg Buchner ~
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 ~
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
~By John Rawls ~
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
~By Ben Okri ~
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
~By George Sand ~
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