Humanity Quotes - Page 12

• A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

  Gerald Massey

  Baby, Sweet, Flower

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Giving, Redemption

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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• The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

  Adolf Hitler

  Tasks, Earth, Almighty

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Safety, Liberty, Path

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• I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

  Camille Paglia

  Fall, Laughing, Giving

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• We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Mean, Problem

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Events, Forget, Shame

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Over You, Soul

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• It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

  Ian MacKaye

  Emotional, Interesting, Strife

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• Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Causes, Adore

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• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  H. L. Mencken

  Cheating, Honesty, Lying

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• Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Hatred, Defined

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• In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Light, Rocks, People

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• It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.

  Vaclav Havel

  Transcendence, Human Experience, Humans

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• I certainly had qualms about writing my piece in the first place, since I knew I couldn't express my disdain for many of Rev. Falwell's teachings. But I don't regret having written about the sides of Rev. Falwell that had nothing to do with politics or religion - his grandkids, his ministry for ex-alcoholics, his penchant for practical jokes. I think it's important to recognize the humanity in everyone, even those we strongly disagree with.

  Kevin Roose

  Regret, Teaching, Writing

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• Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

  John Dickinson

  Children, Justice, Honor

  "A Library of American Literature From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Volume 3, 'A Duty to Posterity' (pp. 177-178), 1892.

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• As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stars, Reality, Everyday

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Children, Attention, Want

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• People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Dream, People, Community

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.59, New Society Publishers

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• God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

  Peter Altenberg

  Dream, Thinking, Slumber

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• All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  New York, Treasure, Essentials

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• Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

  Fred Brooks

  Software, Complexes

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• Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  War, Differences, Mind

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s prophetic vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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