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Quotes About Humanity

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
~ David Mitchell
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
~ Lawrence Block
I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.
~ Maya Goded
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
~ Patton Oswalt
When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.
~ Joe Mantegna
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
~ Grimes
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.
~ David Letterman
Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.
~ Amartya Sen
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
~ Lionel Shriver
If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
~ Peter McWilliams
It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
~ Thomas Berry
In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
~ Jim Blasingame
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
~ Sigmund Freud
Val- I'm on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.
~ David Whyte
Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
~ Charles Bukowski
India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi