Quotes About Humanity

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Literature is the expression of society.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Poets sing our human music for us.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.