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 ~
America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.
~By John Walsh ~
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
~By Fidel Castro ~
Humanity is the sin of God.
~By Theodore Parker ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 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 ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
~By Pablo Casals ~
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
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 ~
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
~By Vartan Gregorian ~
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
~By Roberto Benigni ~
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
~By Jerry Costello ~
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
~By Jean Shepherd ~
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~By Horace Mann ~
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 has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~By Marquis de Lafayette ~
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
~By Owen Feltham ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
~By Keith Haring ~
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
~By James Ellroy ~
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 ~
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
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 ~
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
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 ~
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Books are humanity in print.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
~By Julie Harris ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
~By Leland Stanford ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
~By Luther Burbank ~
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 ~
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
~By James Larkin ~
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 ~
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
~By Henry Miller ~
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
~By Sonny Terry ~
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 ~
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 ~
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~By Georg Buchner ~
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~By Hans Kung ~
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
~By Mark Edwards ~
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
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 ~
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
~By Eric Schmidt ~
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
~By Georg Brandes ~
The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
~By Anthony LaPaglia ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.
~By Masami Akita ~
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
~By Alain Badiou ~
It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
~By Debra Wilson ~
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
~By Ella Maillart ~
I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.
~By Ron Perlman ~
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.
~By Tom Robbins ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
~By Richie Benaud ~
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
~By Charles Wagner ~
Without humility there can be no humanity.
~By John Buchan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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