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  • The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. -- Marquis de Lafayette
  • Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -- Dalai Lama
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity connected is God. -- Jim Gilliam
  • Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality -- Susan B. Anthony
  • Humanity is constitutionally lazy. -- J. G. Holland
  • Humanity hungers for the uncommon. -- Michael Leunig
  • Humanity is a comic role. -- Novalis
  • Humanity can be pretty stinky. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Humanity lives in its fiction. -- Blaise Cendrars
  • Humanity always becomes a conqueror. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. -- Edmund Burke
  • Humanity is best described as inhumanity. -- Pat Conroy
  • Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Humanity is the cancer of nature. -- David Foreman
  • Humanity is the cancer of nature. -- David Foreman
  • Humanity is the Son of God. -- Theodore Parker
  • Humanity is the sin of God. -- Theodore Parker
  • Humanity is the sin of God -- Theodore Parker
  • Humanity is just a virus with shoes. -- Bill Hicks
  • Humanity is the equity of the heart. -- Confucius
  • I love Humanity but I hate humans -- Albert Einstein
  • Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely... -- Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity. -- Karl Barth
  • Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • Humanity is outraged in me and with me. -- George Sand
  • Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal. -- Kedar Joshi
  • Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Humanity, you never had it to begin with. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Humanity will live as long as there are humans. -- Vasily Grossman
  • Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator. -- Forrest Carr
  • The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots. -- Slavoj Žižek
  • We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. -- William Arthur Ward
  • Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. -- Peace Pilgrim
  • Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. -- Charles Wagner
  • Humanity owes the child the best it has to give. -- Eglantyne Jebb
  • Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association. -- Seanan McGuire
  • Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. -- David Ehrenfeld
  • Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. -- Auguste Comte
  • Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity -- Dalai Lama
  • And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep, -- Pope Francis
  • Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. -- Ilyas Kassam
  • Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind -- Dean Cavanagh
  • Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers. -- William Hazlitt
  • Blood Leads to Humanity, Spirit Leads to Night, and Earth Completes. -- P. C. Cast
  • Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. -- Rebecca West
  • Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. -- Marquis de Lafayette
  • Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. -- Bryant McGill
  • Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. -- John Steinbeck
  • Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. -- Bryant McGill
  • Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. -- Adam Smith
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  • Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. -- Dean Koontz
  • Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth. -- Frans de Waal
  • Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest. -- Lester R. Brown
  • Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. -- Goran Persson
  • Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. -- Richard Bach
  • We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity. -- Abdoulaye Wade
  • Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. -- Meir Soloveichik
  • I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do. -- Lea Michele
  • Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. -- Dean Koontz
  • An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • To err is human, but it feels divine. -- Mae West
  • There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. -- Albert Einstein
  • Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann
  • I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it. -- Janice Tanton
  • To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. -- Nelson Mandela
  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein
  • I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace. -- Peace Pilgrim
  • My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. -- Desmond Tutu
  • If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -- Mother Teresa
  • Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. -- Louis Pasteur
  • It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. -- Henri Matisse
  • 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
  • Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. -- Goran Persson
  • Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. -- Julius Sterling Morton
  • Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity. -- Maximillian Degenerez
  • As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth. -- Lauren Mackler
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
  • 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
  • If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' -- Dave Barry
  • 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. -- James Madison
  • Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. -- John Shelby Spong
  • The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else. -- Henry Moore
  • I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. -- Ron Perlman
  • 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
  • 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. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. -- Plato
  • Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. -- Kevyn Aucoin
  • If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. -- Eleanor Clift
  • During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. -- Maya Angelou
  • Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. -- Yehuda Berg
  • We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves. -- Angelina Jolie
  • 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
  • Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. -- Henri Nouwen
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