Quotes with humanity

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  • Theodore Roosevelt The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Brandes The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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  • Charles Sumner The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
    Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Archibald Macleish 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
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
    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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  • Edmund Burke 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
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Alan Paton 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
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bertrand Russell This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Walter Lippmann This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Blaise Pascal To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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