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Quotes about Humanity


O wearisome condition of humanity!

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

William Shakespeare

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.

Robert Burns

But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Sir Henry Taylor

O suffering, sad humanity!
O ye afflicted ones, who lie
Steeped to the lips in misery,
Longing, yet afraid to die,
Patient, though sorely tried!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle
Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

James Russell Lowell

? John Bartlett, compAfter all there is but one race--humanity.

George Moore

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.

The autobiographer can see himself as the only true historian in the sense that he is presenting the life of perennial humanity. In the narrower sense, he provides the raw material for the social historian, demonstrating what it was like to be imprisoned in a particular segment of time.

Humanity is unregenerable and hates the language of conformity, since conformity has a whiff of the inhuman about it

The confessional is ever open for the discharge of the shameful ordures of humanity

I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move!

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Michel de Montaigne

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