Humanity Quotes

‘Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.’ – Dalai Lama

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.’ – Marie Curie

‘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

‘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

‘The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.’ – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

‘What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.’ – Joseph Addison

‘To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.’ – Thomas Paine

‘My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.’ – Clint Smith

‘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

‘Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.’ – Horace Mann

‘Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.’ – Tim Cook

‘We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.’ – Elon Musk

‘Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It’s recognizing that the same humanity – the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security – exists in each of us, even if it’s expressed uniquely.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.’ – James E. Faust

‘It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?’ – bell hooks

‘War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.’ – Martin Luther

‘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

‘I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.’ – Keith Haring

‘Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it’s always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.’ – Jacob Collier

‘Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.’ – Hippocrates

‘The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.’ – James Buchanan

‘Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.’ – Maximilien Robespierre

‘Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.’ – Eric Yuan

‘Politeness is the flower of humanity.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that’s as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all – humanity was wounded by the genocide.’ – Immaculee Ilibagiza

‘Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.’ – Ernest Renan

‘Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?’ – Mark Twain

‘Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘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

‘Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.’ – Robert Browning

‘Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.’ – Petrarch

‘Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!’ – Fidel Castro

‘The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.’ – Eric Schmidt

‘The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.’ – Guglielmo Marconi

‘Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.’ – Adam Smith

‘The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?’ – John Quincy Adams

‘We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘Humanity, you never had it to begin with.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.’ – Lydia M. Child

‘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

‘Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.’ – e. e. cummings

‘It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.’ – Unknown

‘I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity.’ – Phil Robertson

‘Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It’s always about people; it’s always about ego. It’s always about desperation. It’s quite existential. You know, ‘Am I leading a good life?’ That might be because I’m an atheist, and I think this is all we’ve got, so you better be nice. And have fun.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘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

‘If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘War is a defeat for humanity.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘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

‘Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.’ – John Desmond Bernal

‘After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.’ – Hans Kung

‘A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.’ – David Icke

‘The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?’ – Kanye West

‘Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.’ – Carl Jung

‘By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘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

‘The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.’ – Anna Julia Cooper

‘Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.’ – Theodor Herzl

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny – and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.’ – Alicia Garza

‘All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.’ – Dia Mirza

‘Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.’ – Benito Mussolini

‘I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.’ – Matisyahu

‘We’ve been playing games since humanity had civilization – there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It’s so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.’ – Nadia Murad

‘Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.’ – Vernon Howard

‘It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.’ – Robert Frank

‘I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.’ – Friedensreich Hundertwasser

‘Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.’ – Reed Hastings

‘For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.’ – William Wordsworth

‘And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It’s simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It’s a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.’ – Gyles Brandreth

‘Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.’ – Jean Arp

‘With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity’s dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.’ – Patti Smith

‘When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.’ – John Coltrane

‘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

‘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

‘The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.’ – Bertha von Suttner

‘Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.’ – David Bowie

‘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

‘God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity.’ – Julie Harris

‘The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.’ – David O. McKay

‘The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.’ – John Trudell

‘Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity’s attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.’ – Luis von Ahn

‘Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘What’s the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.’ – Martin Cooper

‘Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.’ – James Bryce

‘The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.’ – Minoru Yamasaki

‘Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.’ – Franz Werfel

‘There’s a call to adventure. It’s something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I don’t want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It’s when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it’s almost incomprehensible.’ – Sarah McBride

‘The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.’ – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

‘Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.’ – Alveda King

‘Common sense is the genius of humanity.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

”Star Trek’ was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘It’s all about humanity, humility, and integrity.’ – Debra Wilson

‘At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can’t hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.’ – Greg Boyle

‘Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.’ – David Suzuki

‘You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can’t help but write who you are. I’m just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in ‘The Full Monty’ or Aron Ralston.’ – Simon Beaufoy

‘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?’ – Cesar Chavez

‘We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don’t want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected – that we’re all on the same level as humans – that humility is what wins my heart.’ – Jay Shetty

‘May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘It is not a Pandora’s box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.’ – John Sulston

‘I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don’t think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.’ – Taika Waititi

‘You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.’ – Elliott Erwitt

‘A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.’ – Yehuda Berg

”Vote Love’ means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what’s right for humanity.’ – Macklemore

‘I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.’ – Cesare Beccaria

‘Stories appeal to humanity.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we’re currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.’ – Charles Colson

‘It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me – especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and ‘religious’ countries.’ – Richard Rohr

‘Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” – Moshe Vardi

‘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

‘I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.’ – Walter Savage Landor

‘Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity.’ – Marielle Heller

‘Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘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

‘Even two of humanity’s most intimate possessions – a sense of self and a body image – are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain’s mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second’s notice.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.’ – Roberto Benigni

‘Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘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

‘If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘The decline of violence isn’t a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.’ – Steven Pinker

‘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

‘Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.’ – Ralph Ellison

‘Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.’ – Nancy Astor

‘In ‘The Secret Agent,’ it’s basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don’t really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.’ – Robin Williams

‘Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.’ – Elif Safak

‘When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.’ – Rita Rudner

‘Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he’s flawed. Superman’s flaw is kryptonite, and that’s it. He can make time go backwards, for God’s sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there’s a bit of humanity there.’ – Rupert Friend

‘Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.’ – Charles Sumner

‘The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Humanity will… be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.’ – Niels Bohr

‘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

‘My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.’ – Bernice King

‘Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.’ – William Golding

‘It’s true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.’ – Abbe Pierre

‘I’d like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us – a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.’ – Casey Kasem

‘My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.’ – Modest Mussorgsky

‘The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.’ – John Buchan

‘The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.’ – Li Ka-shing

‘To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.’ – Robert Purvis

‘Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.’ – Deeyah Khan

‘Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.’ – Cecil Rhodes

‘I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I’m not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.’ – Lee Kuan Yew

‘We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.’ – Andre Maurois

‘There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.’ – Mario Botta

‘The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.’ – Pat Conroy

‘We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.’ – George Papandreou

‘Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.’ – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

‘Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.’ – Conrad Hilton

‘Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘There’s a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.’ – Kurt Elling

‘You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.’ – Jessie Buckley

‘Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.’ – David Icke

‘For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.’ – Mark Edwards

‘Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don’t teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.’ – Graham Nash

‘It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.’ – Marcel Proust

‘When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.’ – Shakira

‘By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.’ – Ashley Montagu

‘But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.’ – Thomas Day

‘So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people’s lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.’ – Alice Roberts

‘A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.’ – Frei Otto

‘I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.’ – Lucy Stone

‘God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.’ – Giuseppe Mazzini

‘For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.’ – Ryan Coogler

‘If you let go of fart jokes, you’ve let go of a piece of humanity.’ – Andy Samberg

‘Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.’ – Annie Besant

‘Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.’ – Jonathan Zittrain

‘When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we’re going to see the end of humanity, because I don’t know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.’ – Eve Ensler

‘Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.’ – Josh Gad

‘The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.’ – Leon Trotsky

‘My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be – what are the barriers to that? Often it’s crushing poverty or certain circumstances.’ – Tom Morello

‘A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I hope that five years and ten years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity – gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?’ – Jules Verne

‘This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it’s scary what it does on a global scale. I’m very much caught between the two.’ – Matt Bellamy

‘My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity’s relationship with God.’ – Timothy Radcliffe

‘Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.’ – Margaret Mead

‘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

‘This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another – that’s what, in fact, makes life worth living.’ – Clint Smith

‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That’s 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.’ – Hong Chau

‘I’ve been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I’ve been treated bad by the whitest of white persons. I’ve been treated bad by the blackest of black persons and treated good by the blackest of black persons. So at the end of the day, I know it’s about humanity – do you have a good heart or a bad heart?’ – Ed Reed

‘Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘Humanity’s become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.’ – Edward Bond

‘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

‘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.

‘I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.’ – Randy Schekman

‘I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘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

‘An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn’t take his advice.’ – John McCarthy

‘I think ‘The Hunger Games’ has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It’s almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other’s misfortunes for entertainment.’ – Amandla Stenberg

‘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 is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.’ – Alan Paton

‘There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.’ – Edmund Burke

‘The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.’ – David Droga

‘When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity’s lot has improved dramatically – in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.’ – Shehbaz Sharif

‘I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.’ – Marie Curie

‘We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.’ – Louis Pasteur

‘The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion – others pray in church. It’s a banality, but you don’t possess art, it possesses you. It’s like falling in love.’ – Francois Pinault

‘We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘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

‘Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.’ – Vartan Gregorian

‘Humans should be the Earth’s custodians, not its butchers. Much attention – though not enough – focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity’s mass destruction of the Earth’s wildlife is all too little discussed.’ – Owen Jones

‘In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.’ – Roberto Benigni

‘Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘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

‘Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.’ – Anatole France

‘Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?’ – Joseph Campbell

‘In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.’ – Samuel George Morton

‘My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.’ – John Kani

‘Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly in accordance with justice and humanity, some time or other, if remembered at all, I should stand vindicated in the eyes of my countrymen.’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.’ – Ariel Dorfman

‘I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.’ – James Woods

‘We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘The very name ‘Manson’ has become a metaphor for evil… He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.’ – Al Pacino

‘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

‘I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with more of an emphasis on shared humanity.’ – Lee Isaac Chung

‘Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.’ – Maya Angelou

‘No matter what problem you encounter, whether it’s a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there’s an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘By the time I’m 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I’m a bionic man. I think that’s just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.’ – John Scalzi

‘There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.’ – Alicia Garza

‘Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘You cannot reason with people who don’t recognize the humanity in all of us.’ – Roxane Gay

‘The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don’t share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.’ – Rory Kinnear

‘Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen – prioritizing humanity, not war.’ – Nadia Murad

‘In the fast zombie stories, it’s not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It’s our survival.’ – Stephen Graham Jones

‘If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!’ – Eleonora Duse

‘One’s own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That’s what the human family is all about.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘The Qur’an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.’ – Said Nursi

‘Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.’ – Peter Maurer

‘Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.’ – Alexandra Elbakyan

‘A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.’ – Abdolkarim Soroush

‘It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.’ – Johannes Stark

‘I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again – wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.” – Quentin Tarantino

‘Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.’ – James Larkin

‘I mean, my dad, is really the biggest leadership influence in my life and I believe Jesus was the greatest leaders that ever lived and I think He had the most impact on humanity of anybody who ever walked the planet.’ – Kirk Cousins

‘When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.’ – Noomi Rapace

‘Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.’ – Paul Bloom

‘The movement for black lives isn’t just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It’s been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘Humanity’s future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable energy and switching to efficient low-carbon energy.’ – Fatih Birol

‘If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.’ – Billy Joel

‘With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.’ – Omar N. Bradley

‘We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don’t see any argument to go back to 1600.’ – Patrick Collison

‘I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they’re constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there’s artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘Be able to see people’s humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you’re reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn’t have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.’ – Roy Harper

‘The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.’ – Ray Dalio

‘To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.’ – Ansel Adams

‘I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That’s not just between blacks and whites. That’s between all religions as well.’ – Phylicia Rashad

‘Books are humanity in print.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman

‘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

‘Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man’s reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.’ – Thomas Paine

‘The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.’ – Robyn Davidson

”Ida’ doesn’t set out to explain history. That’s not what it’s about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They’re not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.’ – Pawel Pawlikowski

‘To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person’s humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.’ – Thomas Ligotti

‘The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.’ – Elon Musk

‘If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.’ – Kevin Reilly

‘If we can make computers more intelligent – and I want to be careful of AI hype – and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.’ – Andrew Ng

‘Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Without humility there can be no humanity.’ – John Buchan

‘I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it’s a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Horton Foote

‘I’ve learned that being a superhero isn’t all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It’s just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, ‘With great power comes great responsibility.” – Josh Keaton

‘The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.’ – Charles Sumner

‘The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.’ – Jill Tarter

‘I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare.’ – Richard Gere

‘I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.’ – Emile Zola

‘Because the Internet is a medium, it doesn’t care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.’ – Caterina Fake

‘Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn’t anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.’ – Cat Cora

‘In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It’s not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity.’ – Phil Robertson

”Robopocalypse’ explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.’ – Daniel H. Wilson

”Humanity’ is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.’ – Bernard Williams

‘Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.’ – David Niven

”Falling Skies’ is not just about aliens attacking. It’s also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.’ – Maxim Knight

”The Reader’ is about a young man’s experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.’ – Kate Winslet

‘Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?’ – Beah Richards

‘Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.’ – Jose Marti

‘Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.’ – David Icke

‘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

‘I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people’s mothers around the world, they wouldn’t commit the crimes they commit.’ – Wallace Shawn

‘When will the world start believing that the biggest religion of all is humanity?’ – Raveena Tandon

‘Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity’s control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there’s nothing we can do about that.’ – James Hansen

‘What is and isn’t justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties – ‘collateral damage’ – is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I’m an AI technologist.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn’t be? Our capacity to see each other’s humanity.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.’ – Simon Wiesenthal

‘Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.’ – Rudolf Christoph Eucken

‘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

‘Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.’ – Indya Moore

‘It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.’ – Audra McDonald

‘Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘While infusing technology with humanity, we are trying to make sure it’s used for good and also trying to foresee some of the ways it can be used in a bad way and eliminate those.’ – Tim Cook

‘A church of dialogue in the contemporary world… a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.’ – Claudio Hummes

‘It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.’ – Barbara Walters

‘The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.’ – Ashley Montagu

‘In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.’ – Edmund Husserl

‘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

‘Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.’ – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

‘At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?’ – Jose Padilha

‘Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.’ – Henri Bergson

‘The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?’ – Lucy Larcom

‘Paradise is too perfect for humanity.’ – Dario Argento

‘Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there’s a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.’ – Johnny Galecki

‘If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.’ – Arun Jaitley

‘Humanity is a virus.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.’ – Edward Gibbon

‘I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.’ – Ben Carson

‘If a heartfelt apology on Twitter isn’t enough to restore some small semblance of faith in humanity, I don’t know what is.’ – Brianna Keilar

‘My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed – but only just – in the middle of the twentieth century.’ – Peter Abrahams

‘During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus’d.’ – John Marshall

‘All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.’ – Ernest Renan

‘When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.’ – John Strachan

‘My job is to show our humanity, and the only way to be leading with that sort of humanity is to lead with the problems that a family like this might be encountering and putting those on display.’ – Ramy Youssef

‘Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.’ – Tom Hiddleston

‘Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes… I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.’ – Frei Otto

‘We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there’s humanity everywhere, and that’s what I’m trying to do.’ – Mira Nair

‘Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.’ – Daniel Libeskind

‘We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves – and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.’ – David Attenborough

‘In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.’ – Augusto Roa Bastos

‘When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.’ – Goran Persson

‘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

‘Comedy is the only hope for humanity.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘Biology, it’s the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.’ – Ryan Bethencourt

‘No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.’ – George Sand

‘The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It’s not one or the other. It’s both.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.’ – Henry Beston

‘There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can ‘afford to save the environment.’ This ‘Kuznets Curve’ thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.’ – Carmen Carrera

‘Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘I don’t think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it’s going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we’re currently doing in the real world.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘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

‘No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.’ – Richard Grenell

‘This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.’ – William Jennings Bryan

‘Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.’ – David Grinspoon

‘Creation’s highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.’ – Said Nursi

‘I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.’ – Joseph Rotblat

‘There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt – to me, anyway – is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.’ – Tilda Swinton

‘It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘But when I played Woodstock, I’ll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I’ll never forget.’ – Edgar Winter

‘The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats – but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.’ – Prince Charles

‘The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘So, obviously, on International Women’s Day, we are honoring the achievements of women, but gender equality and feminism cannot evolve in our humanity if we’re not bringing our boys and men along.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

‘There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call ‘the social Web’ or ‘Web 2.0,’ a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.’ – Walter Kirn

‘I studied ethics more than anything – people’s feelings about humanity. Of course, I was much younger then. I had more trust in humanity then, but I think people were more trustful. They had standards of right and wrong. Now people say: ‘What’s right? What’s wrong?’ And I say: ‘if you don’t know what’s right or wrong, then I’m sorry for you.” – Agnes Moorehead

‘Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.’ – Patrick Henry

‘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

‘Israel, for me, represents so much more than a nation. It’s a very idealized example for the world. It’s not just a nation that needs to be strong, secure, and safe. For me, for the sake of humanity, Israel needs to be a light that is an example to all nations.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don’t see a risk to humanity of a ‘Terminator’ scenario or anything of the sort.’ – Ramez Naam

‘North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.’ – Fidel Castro

‘What I’m trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.’ – Paul LePage

‘I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it’s important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.’ – Jimmy O. Yang

‘Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, ‘Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?’ I avoid the trap of easy definition.’ – Cecil Taylor

‘With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.’ – Francis Arinze

‘I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we’ll get there, and yet there’s always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn’t been explored.’ – William Shatner

‘Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.’ – Ben Domenech

‘We don’t need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.’ – Arlen Specter

‘My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one’s personal life.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘I’ve often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word – care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.’ – Allan Savory

‘HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.’ – Shereen El Feki

‘Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.’ – Said Nursi

‘The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.’ – Marti Noxon

‘Thinking about the new epoch – often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity – challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.’ – David Grinspoon

‘A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.’ – Jean Rostand

‘No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we’ll do what we’ve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They’re devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.’ – Wes Craven

‘Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.’ – Oscar Niemeyer

‘From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.’ – Michael Servetus

‘When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.’ – Martin Sheen

‘Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.’ – Paul Allen

”Star Trek’ episodes always insisted that humanity is on its bumpy way to what will be a glorious future in the 23rd century, in which we will have left most of our old selfishness – and old hatreds and prejudices – far behind us.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘I don’t know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I’ve played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we’re all – there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we’re all from Africa originally.’ – Meryl Streep

‘You cannot put a song – you cannot put a person’s talent over somebody’s humanity. That’s just insane.’ – Tarana Burke

‘Hubble isn’t just a satellite; it’s about humanity’s quest for knowledge.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.’ – Dalai Lama

‘It’s very hard to respect people on holiday – everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity – but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it’s a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.’ – Alain de Botton

‘From the boardroom to the bedroom, we’re connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?’ – Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey

‘The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.’ – Russell Baker

‘Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.’ – Nelson DeMille

‘A street thug and a paid killer are professionals – beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.’ – Willard Gaylin

‘There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors… But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.’ – Claude Adrien Helvetius

‘I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.’ – Johann Kaspar Lavater

‘Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.’ – William Hazlitt

‘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

‘Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.’ – Connie Mack

‘Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.’ – Tom Cruise

‘The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.’ – Edgar Quinet

‘Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.’ – Jean Paul

‘Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.’ – Antoine Rivarol

‘I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.’ – Lord Byron

‘Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.’ – Remy de Gourmont

‘While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.’ – Owen Feltham

‘The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.’ – Mary McCarthy

‘There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘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

‘Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.’ – Nelson Algren

‘We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.’ – Pablo Casals

‘Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.’ – Ezra Pound

‘I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.’ – Louis MacNeice

‘Fear makes us feel our humanity.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.’ – Richard Lugar

‘Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.’ – Richard Hughes

‘Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we’re gone.’ – William J. Clinton

‘I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process – the journey of the character. It’s like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.’ – David Wenham

‘A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.’ – Alain Badiou

‘Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.’ – Alain Badiou

‘We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.’ – Abdoulaye Wade

‘In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.’ – Horst Koehler

‘No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.’ – Nong Duc Manh

‘Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.’ – Olusegun Obasanjo

‘Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.’ – Silvia Cartwright

‘Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.’ – John Rawls

‘We are all cells in the same body of humanity.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.’ – Ben Okri

‘America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.’ – John Walsh

‘The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.’ – Charles Wagner

‘I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.’ – Ron Perlman

‘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

‘The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.’ – Lou Henry Hoover

‘Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.’ – John McCarthy

‘Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.’ – John Portman

‘The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?’ – E. O. Wilson

‘We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.’ – Arthur Henderson

‘If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.’ – Samuel Hopkins

‘Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.’ – Zoltan Kodaly

‘The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.’ – William Godwin

‘And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘I’m not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity’s problem rather than my personal problem.’ – Robert Guillaume

‘When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.’ – Robert Fisk

‘If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!’ – Vivian Campbell

‘You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It’s the closest music to our humanity – it’s like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.’ – Sonny Terry

‘In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity – all but the possibility of improvement.’ – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

‘For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.’ – Jermaine Jackson

‘I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.’ – Jermaine Jackson

‘My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.’ – Lee Atwater

‘The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.’ – Vernor Vinge

‘Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.’ – Herman Kahn

‘Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.’ – Neil Sheehan

‘I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.’ – James Ellroy

‘For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.’ – Christopher Dawson

‘On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.’ – Nelson A. Miles

‘Our democratic richness arrives when we’re able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.’ – Stanley Crouch

‘Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.’ – Hans Kung

‘Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.’ – Jerry Costello

‘I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.’ – John Astin

‘Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.’ – John Sergeant Wise

‘I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.’ – Tom Glazer

‘It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.’ – Rowan Williams

‘The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.’ – Timothy Radcliffe

‘But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.’ – Debbie Harry

‘The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.’ – Francis Parker Yockey

‘He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.’ – Gene Wolfe

‘What I’m suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.’ – Jeremy Rifkin

‘If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.’ – Ernestine Rose

‘I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.’ – Luther Burbank

‘Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.’ – Jack Kingston

‘They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.’ – Jeri Ryan

‘The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.’ – Arthur Keith

‘Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.’ – Carol P. Christ

‘We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.’ – M. H. Abrams

‘The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.’ – M. H. Abrams

‘I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.’ – Paul Nurse

‘Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge

‘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

‘The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.’ – James Larkin

‘Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.’ – Edward Dmytryk

‘Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.’ – Francis Parkman

‘The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.’ – Ibrahim Babangida

‘Stanley didn’t shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.’ – Matthew Modine

‘From our broadcasting box you can’t see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.’ – Richie Benaud

‘Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all – of which all of humanity can be proud.’ – Oliver Tambo

‘Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.’ – James Lovelock

‘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

‘The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn’t change.’ – Pierre Schaeffer

‘France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.’ – Alfred de Vigny

‘I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.’ – Joseph Rotblat

‘I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.’ – Joseph Rotblat

‘Probably all the books I’ve ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.’ – Fred Saberhagen

‘Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.’ – Ella Maillart

‘The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.’ – Jean Shepherd

‘A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.’ – Mikhail Bakunin

‘This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.’ – Mikhail Bakunin

‘I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.’ – Robert Barany

‘There are those moments when you shake someone’s hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.’ – Ralph Fiennes

‘I’m very much an optimist. I don’t think I could do my work if I didn’t believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.’ – Sandra Bernhard

‘I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.’ – Wayne Coyne

‘I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.’ – Tony Hillerman

‘Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.’ – Peter DeFazio

‘I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.’ – Kyra Sedgwick

‘That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.’ – Casey Kasem

‘Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He’s the most easygoing, lovely man, but he’s got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.’ – Christine Baranski

‘A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity – or even patented for himself – must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.’ – James Payn

‘In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.’ – Georg Brandes

‘The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.’ – Georg Brandes

‘I’m always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don’t see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.’ – Irvine Welsh

‘There’s nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.’ – Chris Lowe

‘The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.’ – Irwin Shaw

‘The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?’ – Len Wein

‘Above all nations is humanity.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.’ – Howard Stern

‘We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.’ – George Soros

‘Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.’ – Lajos Kossuth

‘Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘Humanity is the sin of God.’ – Theodore Parker

‘Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.’ – Alan Rudolph

‘What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.’ – Lion Feuchtwanger

‘I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.’ – Terence

‘Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.’ – Rebecca West

‘We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.’ – Alan Bennett

‘We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.’ – Shelley Morrison

‘So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.’ – Giuseppe Mazzini

‘He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.’ – Mikhail Bakunin

‘The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.’ – Ralph Ellison

‘Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.’ – Elsa Maxwell

‘Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.’ – Mary Shelley

‘The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.’ – Georg Buchner

‘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

‘Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.’ – Timothy Radcliffe

‘Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.’ – Georg Buchner

‘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

‘Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.’ – Thomas Mann

‘How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.’ – E. T. A. Hoffmann

‘My joy knows no bounds… I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.’ – Olusegun Obasanjo

‘Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.’ – Adolf Hitler

‘Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires – and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.’ – Arthur Peacocke

‘When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.’ – Robert Cailliau

‘The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it’s a blond guy with a beard, I don’t know… I don’t know that. Do I believe that there’s something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.’ – Anthony LaPaglia

‘After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.’ – Margaret Chan

‘Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘There’s no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It’s soon going to be more than that.’ – Stewart Brand

‘We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity – that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.’ – Angela Merkel

‘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

‘Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.’ – Viola Davis

‘Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.’ – Alveda King

‘What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven’t seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there’s some great battle sequences. It’s my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn’t want to be a vampire.’ – Peter Facinelli

‘I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.’ – Alan Davies

‘At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money.’ – Ethan Hawke

‘The way I look at humanity, I don’t think there’s good guys or bad guys. We’re all potentially bad and potentially good.’ – Stellan Skarsgard

‘My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.’ – Dana Snyder

‘I’m a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple – I have way too many in my closet! It’s warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!’ – Candace Cameron Bure

‘I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.’ – Diane Keaton

‘Well, I’m an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the ’30s and ’40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?’ – Julian Sands

‘To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.’ – Cat Cora

‘I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.’ – Cat Cora

‘I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.’ – Cat Cora

‘I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.’ – Caleb Carr

‘I’m an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.’ – James Buchan

‘We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.’ – Alice Walker

‘We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans’ musicians. It is called the Musicians’ Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘Before Katrina, you didn’t see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn’t even see criticism. It wasn’t until Katrina that people started to come down on them.’ – Ani DiFranco

‘I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.’ – Cat Stevens

‘Man’s inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen ‘Batman’ movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.’ – Kurt Sutter

‘The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn’t stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘I don’t want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.’ – Roberto Unger

‘In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.’ – Roberto Unger

‘India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.’ – Pranab Mukherjee

‘The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself – well, I wouldn’t say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.’ – Ken MacLeod

‘Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.’ – Colin Quinn

‘I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘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

‘The work evolves when you get another part, and then you’re getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It’s more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.’ – Hope Davis

‘And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.’ – Tony Blair

‘There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.’ – Ron Perlman

‘Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter.’ – Russell Baker

‘I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it’s lost its humanity.’ – David Hockney

‘The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.’ – Dennis Prager

‘To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.’ – Dennis Prager

‘Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.’ – Ron Fournier

‘I don’t hate humanity and I’m not interested in people who do. Although, it’s funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. ‘London Fields’ is one of my favorite books ever. And it’s indefensible! But he’s so funny… I forgive him everything.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.’ – Evo Morales

‘There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don’t know what effect it has until you hear it.’ – Andrew Sullivan

‘The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you’re visually massive or somehow you’re in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.’ – Kristin Scott Thomas

‘I’ve always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.’ – Lea Michele

‘My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘If you play it safe every time, then you’re missing the best part of acting. You haven’t learned anything about your humanity.’ – Brit Marling

‘RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, ‘When do you lose your humanity?” – Jose Padilha

‘I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that’s about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.’ – Anson Mount

‘I’ve worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn’t make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there’s an edge to that kind of humanity.’ – Ciaran Hinds

‘I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.’ – Giancarlo Esposito

‘At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.’ – Russell Hornsby

‘Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I’m a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that’s unique and for me incredibly influential.’ – Rian Johnson

‘As an actor, to go and see those shows – great plays like ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and Clifford Odets’s ‘Golden Boy’ – it’s so exhilarating. I’d personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee’s ‘The Zoo Story.’ He’s a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.’ – Keegan Allen

‘By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I’ve missed, but not many.’ – Stephen Hunter

‘Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.’ – Mark Duplass

‘I think it’s fascinating that there’s a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that’s so interesting about the nature of humanity.’ – Deborah Ann Woll

‘I’m a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven’t learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.’ – Julianna Baggott

‘I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we’re not, but we keep trying.’ – Laura Marling

‘Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.’ – Henning Mankell

‘One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.’ – Carla Gugino

‘Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.’ – David Mitchell

‘Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.’ – J. Courtney Sullivan

‘When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.’ – Michael Sheen

‘In real life, I don’t fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt

‘There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.’ – Jared Polis

‘A movie is about human beings, about humanity.’ – Abbas Kiarostami

‘I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.’ – Abbas Kiarostami

‘One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, ‘Well, I’ve had it with humanity.’ But I was wrong.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘What we hold in our heads – our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history – is the sum of our humanity.’ – Richard Eyre

‘I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it’s subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.’ – Mira Nair

‘One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States’ ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It’s a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that’s part of the thrill. Anything can happen.’ – Nina Arianda

‘I just think there’s always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that’s playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.’ – Lisa Edelstein

‘To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.’ – Susan Sullivan

‘I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It’s just all about business.’ – will.i.am

‘In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.’ – Zoe Lister-Jones

‘I came up with the term ‘mindfreak’ because I didn’t like the word ‘magician.’ I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that’s why I came up with that. But, many people say I’m really a student of humanity and psychology.’ – Criss Angel

‘We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn’t give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don’t have that problem because they’re not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.’ – Chris Noth

‘Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He’s so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.’ – Max Winkler

‘Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of ‘experiments’ banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.’ – Robert Winston

‘I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They’re the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.’ – Grimes

‘Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.’ – Terrence McNally

‘Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.’ – Erwin McManus

‘All of them – my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother – were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.’ – James Cromwell

‘Al-Qa’ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.’ – John O. Brennan

‘In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.’ – Jay Griffiths

‘Art should be life. It’s an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.’ – John Lydon

‘I don’t know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the ‘Star Trek’ fandom going.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.’ – Sam Harris

‘If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you’d think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.’ – Francis Spufford

‘I love Paul Giamatti – God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem – the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.’ – Gary Shteyngart

‘God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.’ – Miroslav Volf

‘Corporations take the humanity out of trade – they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the – in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.’ – Neil Postman

‘What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.’ – Dada Vaswani

‘In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.’ – Annie Besant

‘When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.’ – Haniel Long

‘To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.’ – Haniel Long

‘Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator’s hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.’ – Anthony Lewis

‘There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.’ – Anthony Lewis

‘The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That’s a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.’ – Gavin Hood

‘There’s something of a painting of a woman that represents all women – and by extension, all of humanity – that I just find very exciting. It’s a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.’ – Will Cotton

‘In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.’ – David Morrissey

‘If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people – upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.’ – James Nachtwey

‘If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx’s doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I’m rightwing.’ – Niall Ferguson

‘If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who’s calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.’ – Ryan Trecartin

‘If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

‘You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

‘A person’s basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one’s own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.’ – William Morris Hunt

‘When I ask people how much time they spend not doing their job – time spent on ‘work-about-work’ or phone calls or e-mails – people regularly tell me 60, or even 90 percent. So if Asana could take that down closer to zero, we could potentially double the effectiveness of humanity.’ – Justin Rosenstein

‘I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to people’s lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanity’s future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?’ – Justin Rosenstein

‘I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.’ – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

‘Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I’m God and I’d like to start over. I don’t want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That’s why I write a blog. And I read it, too.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.’ – Roberto Benigni

‘Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.’ – Steven Pinker

”Hell in a Handbasket’ is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It’s dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.’ – Meat Loaf

‘As far as I’m concerned, ageing is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.’ – Aubrey de Grey

‘My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.’ – Aaron Koblin

‘In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.’ – Paul Johnson

‘I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn’t changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.’ – Edward Burtynsky

‘I think with any characterization there’s a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.’ – Sugata Mitra

‘You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that’s too passive.’ – Steven Strogatz

‘I don’t think most men do hate women at all – I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can’t have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with – promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in ‘Star Trek.” – Gene Roddenberry

‘I see myself as a witness to humanity.’ – Lisa Kristine

‘For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He’s like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.’ – James McAvoy

‘The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That’s not the way humanity has courted.’ – Helen Fisher

‘I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.’ – Helen Fisher

‘When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.’ – Jeremy Gilley

‘I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that’s what defines what the civilization cares about.’ – Jesse Schell

‘Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It’s kind of like a fellowship.’ – Jill Scott

‘As humanity goes online, it’s becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.’ – Luis von Ahn

‘History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we’re going.’ – Julia Bacha

‘The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.’ – Julian Baggini

‘Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.’ – Moshe Safdie

‘The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.’ – John Oliver

‘We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.’ – Nicholas A. Christakis

‘I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.’ – Brent Weeks

‘I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity… I tell ya, it made ‘Angela’s Ashes’ look like ‘The Wonderful World of Disney.” – Kevin Barry

‘Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I’d hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.’ – John Simm

‘Frankly, I’m not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity – doing good work.’ – Sukhwinder Singh

‘I like roles of people who can overcome things because there’s strength in that and an arc – and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you’ve seen this growth and some humanity in the role.’ – Olivia d’Abo

‘Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity’s weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it’s like a sociological expose.’ – Bokeem Woodbine

‘I don’t have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.’ – Ruben Santiago-Hudson

‘Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.’ – Andrew Young

‘You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give – a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.’ – Anne Roiphe

‘Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I’m a character and relationship guy, and even with the ‘Saw’ films, it’s special-effects people’s jobs to create these scary things. It’s not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.’ – Tobin Bell

‘The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we’re nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.’ – Mark Frost

‘A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Aliens didn’t come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘My roomate at ‘Harvey’ is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I’ve taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We’ve had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity.’ – Rich Sommer

‘My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘To continue living, we have to die. That’s the story of humanity – generation after generation – that we are going to die. There’s nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one’s life.’ – Jose Saramago

‘We’re addicted to this concept of civilization – we can’t imagine living outside of it because we’ve had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.’ – Serj Tankian

‘I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity.’ – Ted Turner

‘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

‘What I need is to express my passion for life… It’s movement I’m interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that’s becoming quite a big job.’ – William Gibson

‘There’s been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it’s ‘E.T.,’ ‘Starman,’ or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that’s what a Superman story really is.’ – David S. Goyer

‘The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef

‘When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it’s a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.’ – John Bradley-West

‘There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it’s more interesting often when it’s about struggle – not people with champagne glasses.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘I’ve been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that’s what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘When my children say, ‘In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?’ I say: ‘Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It’s all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.” – Caitlin Moran

‘The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them – the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.’ – Joe Rogan

‘I think that it’s important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don’t let a year go by knowing you didn’t make an effort to do something – no matter how small – outside your own problems and drama.’ – Salma Hayek

‘My mom’s a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I’m just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.’ – Aaron Koblin

‘If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don’t think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc.’ – Rusty Schweickart

‘There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.’ – Malcolm X

‘Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: ‘He/she was born, lived, died.’ Probably that is the template of our stories – a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.’ – Doris Lessing

‘I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John’s gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘You don’t change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of ‘Save the Earth’ bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.’ – Alex Steffen

‘I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.’ – John Boyle O’Reilly

‘I don’t think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we’re sitting here? Solving string theory won’t tell us how humanity was born.’ – Lisa Randall

‘We’re a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones… nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.’ – Diane Paulus

‘I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.’ – Waris Ahluwalia

‘The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned during my time on ‘Oprah’ is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged – to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.’ – Nate Berkus

‘My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking – the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn’t pretty.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘There’s no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.’ – Monica Johnson

‘No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.’ – Monica Johnson

‘In ‘Pictures from an Institution,’ Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.’ – Cathleen Schine

‘We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care for full-throated operatic singing. And why should it? Down through the ages, it has been the simple song which has lived and continues to touch the heart of humanity. And so it is with singing.’ – Rudy Vallee

‘Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they’ve also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there’s anxiety about making the wrong one.’ – Scott Stossel

‘It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.’ – Henry Rollins

‘No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain’s heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘When you have a situation that’s destructive, when there’s tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.’ – Leslie Cockburn

‘My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.’ – Thomas Steinbeck

‘My grandmother died from Alzheimer’s, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It’s not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they’re dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin

‘You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in – the crises in which you’ve placed them.’ – Bob Shacochis

‘The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘My kids miss me when I’m away, but I don’t mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq… it’s such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It’s changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.’ – Okky Madasari

‘Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.’ – Alice Walker

‘I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.’ – Alice Walker

‘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

‘A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?’ – Isaac of Nineveh

‘In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.’ – James Stephens

‘I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.’ – Cyrus Broacha

‘I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.’ – David Christian

‘By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.’ – Eduardo Paes

‘When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.’ – Noah Feldman

‘My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.’ – Jacob Epstein

‘Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I’m a team player all the way, and I love winning.’ – Isaiah Washington

‘The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself.’ – Patch Adams

‘William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.’ – Thomas Pogge

‘We have to overthrow the idea that it’s a diversion from ‘real’ work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.’ – Michael Nielsen

‘Prometheus – trickster, rebel and hero – links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man’s technologies.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.’ – Michael Specter

‘Today’s voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act prudently. And even if we don’t, these problems are incapable of obliterating all of humanity, let alone destroying the Earth. No, the real End of Days will happen slowly, as the Sun ages.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity’s applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you’ve paid off your house, we’ll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either!’ – Seth Shostak

‘Politics is in a crisis because it’s separated from our deep humanity.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves – how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.’ – Chris Abani

‘The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they’re never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.’ – Terence Winter

‘I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.’ – Paul Watson

‘China’s headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices – bending nature to man’s will. That’s a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world’s freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett

‘Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity’s place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context – probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.’ – Martin Rees

‘True security is based on people’s welfare – on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they’ll die horribly in some way someday, and that they’ll face horrible things along the way, I don’t know – I think that’s a beautiful thing. It’s a wonderful thing.’ – Scott M. Gimple

‘Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face – to worry about how to die – distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.’ – Drew Gilpin Faust

‘For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.’ – Shari Arison

‘Literature is for the sake of humanity.’ – Cynthia Ozick

‘When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.’ – Soledad O’Brien

”Cloud Atlas’ is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.’ – Lilly Wachowski

‘The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.’ – David Levithan

‘I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas – only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘I’m not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity – or that’s the hope, at least – a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it’s actually kicking human frailty while it’s down – I’m not sure.’ – David Rakoff

‘I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.’ – Jake Busey

‘I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I’ll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn’t make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It’s so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.’ – Jim Parrack

‘I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.’ – Kurt Busiek

‘Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.’ – Eskinder Nega

‘I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don’t know if that’s in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I’m concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.’ – Nicole Ari Parker

‘Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander… It’s just an extension of humanity.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.’ – Rory Kennedy

‘Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it’s going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.’ – John Hurt

‘I’ve had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.’ – Richie Sambora

‘Humanity hungers for the uncommon.’ – Michael Leunig

‘Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down – probably to control it – diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.’ – Michael Leunig

‘Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.’ – Mitchell Baker

‘The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as ‘ours.’ – Mitchell Baker’ – Mitchell Baker

‘I became hooked on ‘In Treatment,’ which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.’ – Hattie Morahan

‘I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘I’m very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘I’ve found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let’s not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.’ – Donald Johanson

‘To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘For black Americans, we know that gun control… sprouts from racist soil – be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man’s humanity was not recognized.’ – Niger Innis

‘Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It’s how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.’ – John Grogan

‘The New Testament doesn’t present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because… he was a single man.’ – John Ortberg

‘Humanity is not common in its views.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I don’t want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don’t really mean anything.’ – Ellar Coltrane

‘I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.’ – Edward M. Lerner

‘Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.’ – Clark Blaise

‘I’ve seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it’s about the other person.’ – Adam Driver

‘Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: – God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.’ – Max Heindel

‘In ‘Garden Party’ or ’40 Days and 40 Nights,’ I played characters who people don’t necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.’ – Vinessa Shaw

‘Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.’ – Vinessa Shaw

‘Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.’ – Mike Love

‘One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I’ve read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it’s me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.’ – David Josiah Brewer

‘We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It’s a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don’t feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity – everything lies in the family.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘Two words guided the making of ‘Babel’ for me: ‘dignity’ and ‘compassion.’ These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.’ – Alexis Tsipras

‘The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.’ – Leon Bourgeois

‘For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by ‘survival.’ As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What’s happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you’re being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.’ – Eric Whitacre

‘There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.’ – Gioconda Belli

‘The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don’t care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of humanity. They are unhinged sociopaths, far removed from what the Occupy Movement called the ’99 percent.” – Henry Giroux

‘In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today’s platforms are not tomorrow’s platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.’ – Ze Frank

‘Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity’s long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity’s nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit – simply because we’re not fully in control of our environment.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.’ – Ashraf Barhom

‘I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.’ – Ariel Pink

‘As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, ‘bad feminism’ simply seemed like the best answer.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.’ – John Mackey

‘I want to be remembered as a great actor – and a shining example of humanity.’ – Jesse L. Martin

‘There’s, you know, there’s an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn’t wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn’t wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what’s wrong with humanity.’ – Chris Evans

‘I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think they’re always going to be relevant not just to women but to humanity. They’re living energy. There’s a lot we can still learn from them.’ – Isabel Lucas

‘My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.’ – Adam Lambert

‘Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.’ – Mary Lambert

‘We’re human beings, and we want stories. We’re always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we’ll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it’s never gonna be the only things that get made.’ – Peter Jackson

‘The goal of ‘Data Detectives’ is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.’ – Rick Smolan

‘In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it’s less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity – who cares?’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else – roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.’ – Ramez Naam

‘I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.’ – Megan Smith