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Quotes About Humanity

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.
~ Fei-Fei Li
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
~ Charles Kuralt
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
~ Aeschylus
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
~ Golda Meir
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
~ Albert Camus
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
~ Maimonides
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
~ Lionel Richie
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
~ Garth Brooks
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
~ Joseph Rotblat
I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.
~ Zhou Xun
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
~ William Golding
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
~ Theodore Dreiser
And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.
~ Michael Servetus
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
~ Gary L. Francione
The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
~ John Shelby Spong
We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.
~ Pope Paul VI
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
~ Charles Darwin
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
~ Saadi
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
~ Alfred Einstein
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
~ Alberto Sordi
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius