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Humanity Quotes
"Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.I am humanityHe crawled.I am humanity.He fell.I am humanity.He got up."
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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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"Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential."
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"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being."
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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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"Compassion is a verb."
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"My soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin."
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"It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine."
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"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
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"Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance."
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"People are more than just the way they look."
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"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
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"I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement."
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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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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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"Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love."
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"Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?"
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"But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human."
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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."
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"He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick."
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"For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We're ALL guests on Earth, not Management."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"Knowing someone's name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not "the enemy. Knowing someone's name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants, a person who has known triumphs and failures. People are their names; they're proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It's the first word they learn after "Daddy and "Mummy."
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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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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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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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"At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist."
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"I would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings."
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"Some peopleAre worthy of a bullet straightto the heart because that is wherecruelty evolves into evil.Somehumans aren't human at all,despite how they appear.Humanity is what lives insidepeople,harbored beneath skin, flesh,and bone."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
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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 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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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
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"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."
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"Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit."
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"Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity."
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"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."
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"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
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