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Humanity Quotes
"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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"It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine."
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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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"Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential."
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"We believe in an aristocracy... Not an aristocracy of power, based on rank or wealth, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate, and the plucky. Our members are found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between us when we meet... We represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. We're an invincible army, but not a victorious one. We've had different names throughout history, but all the words that describe us are false and all attempts to organize us fail. Right now we're called V.F.D., but all our schisms and arguments might cause us to disappear. It won't matter. People like us always slip through the net. Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world."
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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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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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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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"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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"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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"Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
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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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"I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement."
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"People are more than just the way they look."
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"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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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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"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 straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
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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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"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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"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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"Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real."
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"All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language."
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"Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit."
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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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"Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart."
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"Compassion is a verb."
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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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"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
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"The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day..."
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"Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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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's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity."
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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
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"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
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"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."
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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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"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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