Quotes
Quotes about Humanity
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.
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.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
The three signs of great men areâgenerosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.
Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Humanity is the sin of God.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
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. -Alan Paton.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
