Quotes About Humanity

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

I've always had great faith in people.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.