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Quotes About Humanity

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
~ Michael Jai White
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
~ Danny Lyon
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
~ John Updike
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
~ George Orwell
The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.
~ John Townsend
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
~ David Attenborough
I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.
~ Dean Mitchell
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
~ Cat Stevens
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~ Jean Rostand
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
~ Ann Voskamp
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
~ Isadora Duncan
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
~ Lajos Kossuth
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
~ Albert Einstein
I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
~ Bill Mollison
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
~ William Osler
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.
~ Kofi Annan
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
~ Heinrich Heine
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen