Quotes with humanity

Quotes 121 till 140 of 200.

  • Paul Klee Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bette Davis The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Charles Sumner The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Mary McCarthy 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
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • David Mitchell The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 66
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper 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
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Ashley Montagu The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Lydia Maria Child The cure for all 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.
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  • Lydia M. Child The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Robert Alan The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller 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 von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky 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
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Edgar Quinet 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
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Arthur Keith The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Henry Miller 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
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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