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Quotes About Humanity

Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
~ Hany Abu-Assad
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
~ Pope John Paul II
Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve
~ Simon Pegg
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
~ Sigmund Freud
Christ's humanity occasions our divinity
~ Scott Cairns
Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.
~ Larry Heinemann
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
~ Bill Bryson
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.
~ Brian Andreas
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
~ Immanuel Kant
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
~ Karl Kraus
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
~ Rudolf Steiner
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
~ William Branch Giles
Mama, humanity is my business.
~ Philip Zimbardo
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.
~ Tony Campolo
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.
~ Georges Limbour
Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
~ Chinua Achebe
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
~ Eric Hoffer