Quotes with humanity

Quotes 81 till 100 of 200.

  • Remy de Gourmont 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
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Walters 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
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre 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
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Phillips Brooks Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn 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 Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Let nothing be called natural
    In an age of bloody confusion,
    Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
    And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
    Be held unalterable!
    The Exception and the Rule
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • 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
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • 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
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Marcel Proust Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Nelson Algren Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Voltaire Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • George F. Will Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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