Humanity Quotes - Page 3

• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Commitment, People, World

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

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• ...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Wisdom, Believe, Needs

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Pain, War, Should Have

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Giving, Peaceful

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• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more

  Pope Francis

  Children, Home, Men

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.129, SPCK

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• I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

  Alyssa Milano

  Compassion, Citizens, Students

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• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Diversity, Tree

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• World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Religious, Kings

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• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Intuition, Purpose

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Symphony, Messages, Notes

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• ...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Rights, Age

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• 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

  Real, Would Be, Charity

  Nelson DeMille (1978). “By the rivers of Babylon: a novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil, Behavior, Individual

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• 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

  Success, Long Distance Relationship, Encouragement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.311, Best Books on

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Safety

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  Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Death, Badass

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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• Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Men, Years

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Lower than the Angels')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 1, 1973.

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• For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

  Prince Philip

  Successful, Men, Conservation

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund: British National Appeal Banquet, London, 1962. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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