Humanity Quotes - Page 5

• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Aggravation, Literature

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• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Charity

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Facts

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Happiness, Justice, And Love

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• 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

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

  James Allen

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  James Allen (2013). “The Path of Prosperity (1907)”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Owen Feltham

  Sailing, Ships, Moments

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• Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Success, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Humanity is the Son of God.

  Theodore Parker

  Son

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• Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Simple, Interesting, Details

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Becoming, Bragging

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Way, Degeneration, Wrong Way

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• Every human heart is human.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Heart, Mankind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha: Illustr., from Designs by George H. Thomas”, p.4

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• The proper study of mankind is woman.

  Henry Adams

  Nature, Study, Mankind

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Art, Way

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• The still, sad music of humanity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Music, Nature, Prelude

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• For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

  Mary Livermore

  Justice, Slavery, Eras

  Mary A. Livermore (2016). “The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years”, p.373, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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

  Henry Miller

  Men, Forever, Literature

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Positive, Law Of Attraction

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

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Fear, Character

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.178, e-artnow sro

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Reason, Technology And Education

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