Quotes About Legacy

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.