Humanity Quotes

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

~ Pope Paul Vi

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

~ Ellen Key

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

~ Alfred Adler

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

~ Billy Graham

When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

~ Macklemore

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

~ Hjalmar Branting

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

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

~ Wole Soyinka

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

~ Taj Mahal

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

~ Reed Hastings

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

~ Omar Bongo

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

~ Orhan Pamuk

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.

~ Mike D

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

~ E. E. Cummings

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

~ Leland Stanford

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

~ Samuel Beckett

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

~ Lynn Margulis

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

~ Mos Def

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

~ Alveda King

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

~ Lee Iacocca

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

~ Emily Blunt

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

~ Daniel Libeskind

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.

~ David Augsburger

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

~ Mojo Nixon

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

~ Wayne Dyer

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

~ Sojourner Truth

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

~ Franz Werfel

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

~ Voltaire

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

~ Hall Caine

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

~ Carol P. Christ

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

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

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

~ César Chávez

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

~ Elon Musk

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

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

~ Sebastian Thrun