Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. – Wole Soyinka
Humanity is more important to me than talent… if there’s a choice to make, I’ll go humanity over talent every time. – Thomas Kail
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it’s intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us. – Samantha Harvey
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity. – Sonia Sotomayor
Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity. – Steve Erickson
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. – William J. Mann
Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world’s smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others. – Yair Lapid
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person’s humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. – Thomas Ligotti
In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. – Terry Glavin
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity. – William Jennings Bryan
We in this entertainment industry try to act like we’re so super powerful. we’re not being honest, because we’re human, and in our humanity there’s a little fear. – Tasha Smith
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature. – Voltaire
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. – Timothy Radcliffe
The role of citizens, of Christianity, of humanity, is to take care of each other, not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country. – Stephen Fincher
For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world. – Shari Arison
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them. – Sara Gruen
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. – Terry Pratchett
There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt – to me, anyway – is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity. – Tilda Swinton
HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes. – Shereen El Feki
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. – Viola Davis
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. – Sun Myung Moon
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity. – Susan Sullivan
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. – Samuel Hopkins
I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that. – Waris Ahluwalia
In the fast zombie stories, it’s not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It’s our survival. – Stephen Graham Jones
