Humanity Quotes

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

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The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.

Gunnar Myrdal

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Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

Chris Sacca

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All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

James Cromwell

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I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

Jeremy Irons

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Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

Howard Jacobson

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I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Ciaran Hinds

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

John Desmond Bernal

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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Hillary Clinton

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Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

Anthony McCarten

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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Georg Buchner

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

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Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.

Glenn Ligon

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I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

Anohni

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I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

Hattie Morahan

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When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

Max Richter

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Above all nations is humanity.

Goldwin Smith

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We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

Ashraf Barhom

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I like stories about the world, where we're at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.

Carrie-Anne Moss

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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

John McCarthy

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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Renan

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Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.

Carolyn Porco

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