Best 6441 quotes in «humanity quotes» category

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

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.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

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

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Human faces are such a world!