Humanity Quotes

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

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?

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.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.