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Quotes About Humanity

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.
~ Johann Gustav Droysen
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.
~ Eric McCormack
There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.
~ Liza Marklund
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
~ Emma Goldman
We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
~ Jean Houston
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
~ Haniel Long
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
~ Frederick Lenz
The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
~ Frans de Waal
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
~ Russell Baker
I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.
~ John Yu
If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
~ Mark Andrus
As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity
~ Paul Robeson
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
~ Thomas Keating
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
~ Julia McNair Wright
... humility + humor = humanity.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
~ Jesse L. Martin
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
~ Roberto Unger
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal