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Quotes About Humanity

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
~ Bernard Berenson
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
~ Alice Neel
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
~ Anatole France
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
~ Jeremy Denk
The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
~ Nelson Mandela
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
~ Bertolt Brecht
There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.
~ Lav Diaz
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
~ Pope John Paul II
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
~ Hakim Bey
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
~ Bronislaw Huberman
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
~ St. Jerome
We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity "It's your move.
~ Bob Goff
I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.
~ Eddie Izzard
We are blind to each other's humanity.
~ Ernie Barnes
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~ Joseph Joubert
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
~ Peace Pilgrim
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
~ Voltaire
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
~ Nelson Mandela
The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.
~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber