Humanity Quotes - Page 2

• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Teacher, People, Justice

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• 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

  Plato

  Kings, Philosophical, World

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• One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Way, Contemporary

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

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• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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• You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

  Alice Neel

  Ifs

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  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Faith, Confidence, Stupid

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Real, Past

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1816, Best Books on

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• Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within our sight.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Dream, Sight, Land

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• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Paradise, Hell, Mankind

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• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Knowledge, Knowing, Understanding

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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• I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

  Dean Mitchell

  Our World, Personality, World

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perfection, Religion, Christianity

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

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• Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, Racism, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Earth, Divine, Humans

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Home, Community

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• Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

  Marie Curie

  Men, Dreamer, Needs

  "Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe". Book by Michael A. Dopita and Ralph S. Sutherland, 2003.

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• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Peace, Ubuntu

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• But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Hearing, Stills

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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