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Humanity Quotes
"I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
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"To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival."
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"We often hate others because we fail to understand them."
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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity."
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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
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"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
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"The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man."
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"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
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"Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself."
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"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
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"You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love."
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"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?"
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"Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess."
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"You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human."
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"In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being. You can see great human beings surface only when the society is really suffering. When India was under the oppression of British rulers, how many wonderful people stood up? Where are they now? They have just fallen back into their comforts, that's all. All those Ghandis, Patels, Tilaks are still there, but they're dormant. When pain came, they all became alive. They left everything behind and stood up as giants. Where are they now? This is the human misfortune that still there's not enough intelligence in the world that human beings will rise to their peaks when everything is well. They wait for calamities."
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"The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out."
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"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."
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"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
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"Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist,And a British queen--All fit togetherIn the same machine.Nice, nice, very nice;Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice--So many different peopleIn the same device."
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"The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority."
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"Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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"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."
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"Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That's what it means to be human."
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"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."
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"I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me."
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"If you see only goodness in people, then people will be good."
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