Humanity Quotes

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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed (and) if we are not willing (to change), we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

- Andy Irvine

The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues

- Ashley Loncarich

To err is human - but it feels divine

- Mae West

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

- Albert Einstein

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, `I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.`

- Ann Landers

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!

- George Carlin

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

- Oscar Wilde

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It`s a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you`re relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I`m married to someone who is very jealous and you`re married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

- Maya Angelou

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

- Harry Chapin

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

- George Bernard Shaw

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

- Voltaire

We all boil at different degrees

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

- Dale Carnegie

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

- Paul Strand

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

- Carl Gustav Jung

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

- Henry Beston

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

- Italian Proverb

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.

- Martin Luther King

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

- Ryunosuke Satoro

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

- Thomas Carlyle

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

- William Allen White

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

- Kedar Joshi

"I don`t think I`m pushing my luck too far with Mike, although that is something that I like to do," Butler says. "There`s definitely a lot of me in this character, but I think it`s more about me just being boisterous and fun. But I do think a lot of those values Mike espouses go on in both men and women if we`re honest about how we look at each other," he adds. "At the end of it, we`re both human."

- Gerard Butler