Quotes About Humanity

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.