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Quotes About Humanity

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.
~ Douglas Coupland
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
~ Gray Scott
I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.
~ Cesare Beccaria
The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become
~ Anonymous
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
~ Bill Hicks
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
~ Bill Hicks
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~ Victor Borge
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
~ Samuel Johnson
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
~ Mark Twain
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
~ Charles M. Schulz
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
~ James Thurber
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
~ Voltaire
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
~ Harry Mulisch, Siegfried
I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.
~ Jimmy Carr
You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.
~ David Javerbaum
I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart.
~ Steven Wright
Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.
~ Heather Brewer, First Kill
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
~ George Pelecanos
Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.
~ Morgan Spurlock
She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.
~ George Carlin