Humanity Quotes
Sad Quotes about Humanity

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune.
For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure
in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness,
or else forgiving another.
- Jean Paul

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein

I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
- Robert Browning Hamilton

What is a miracle? To some, it is an act of God.
To others, something amazing, extraordinary, or unexpected.
To me, Life is a miracle.
Everything that happens is a miracle.
There is no reason for me to exist as I do -
no reason for humanity, the universe, or the laws of Nature.
Energy, mass, gravity and the rest of existence
are all so improbable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I see humanity now as one vast plant,
needing for its highest fulfillment only love,
the natural blessings of the great outdoors,
and intelligent crossing and selection.
- Luther Burbank

I think music in itself is healing.
It's an explosive expression of humanity.
It's something we are all touched by.
No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
- Billy Joel

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer,
but, my childhood was very good.
I am very grateful for my childhood,
because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
- Roberto Benigni

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who
listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity,
for they shall live forever.
Forever.
- Khalil Gibran

What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
- Daniel Libeskind

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program
winning the world chess championship.
Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- Richard Dawkins

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find
what best fosters the flowering of our humanity
in this contemporary life,
and dedicate ourselves to that.
- Joseph Campbell

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity,
but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- John Buchan

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity
in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
- Alan Rudolph

When you say you are in love with humanity,
you are well satisfied with yourself.
- Luigi Pirandello

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
- Walter Savage Landor

Both politicians and journalists face situations which
strain their honesty and humanity.
My opinion is that politicians on the average stand
up somewhat better than journalists.
- John McCarthy

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child.
Science and truth support the prolife movement.
- Candice S. Miller

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad
manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
- Walt Whitman

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
- Abdoulaye Wade

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind,
and he who renders it accessible to as many people
as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
- Zoltan Kodaly

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured
against the fate of Africa.
- Horst Koehler

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom,
and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking
up to the clear blue sky.
- E. T. A. Hoffmann

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
- Adam Smith

The world changes materially.
Science makes advances in technology and understanding.
But the world of humanity doesn't change.
- Pierre Schaeffer

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Leo Tolstoy

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you
pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
- e. e. cummings

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin,
and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
- Lou Henry Hoover

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into
barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
- Richard Hughes

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's
willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
- Ralph Ellison

To make me believe that those men who have regulated
education in our country have humanity in their hearts
is to make me believe a lie.
- Robert Purvis

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced,
not because it has been sober, responsible,
and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature.
- Tom Robbins

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
- Joseph Joubert

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity -
that is what defines us.
Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
- Angela Merkel

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to
inflict life upon humanity,
time without end.
- Taylor Caldwell

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising
out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
- Carol P. Christ

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity,
if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family,
what have you really accomplished?
- Lee Iacocca

There is only one way in which one can endure man's
inhumanity to man and that is to try,
in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
- Alan Paton

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and
fatigued by the struggle with want,
to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
- Friedrich Schiller

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity.
Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
- Ben Okri

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
- Simon Wiesenthal

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment
of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another
promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- Jack Kingston

Religion is not only a part of education,
an element of humanity, but the center of everything else,
always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity,
and the other the individual lot of man.
- Alfred de Vigny