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Humanity Quotes

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

– Aldis Hodge

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

– Antoine Rivarol

The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity’s attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

– Chris Hadfield

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

– Anthony Marra

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

– Anna Julia Cooper

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that’s about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

– Anson Mount

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

– Ariel Pink

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn’t anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

– Cat Cora

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

– Alan Davies

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

– Billy Graham

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

– Abbas Kiarostami

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give – a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

– Anne Roiphe

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

– Andrew Weil

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

– Billy Joel

It’s true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

– Abbe Pierre

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you’re surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren’t distracted by people’s conversations.

– Adam Mansbach

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

– Charles de Gaulle

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

– Ban Ki-moon

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

– Alice Walker

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.

– Alan Paton

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.

– Conrad Anker

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

– Ashley Montagu

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

– Archibald MacLeish

The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.

– Charles B. Rangel

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

– Abdolkarim Soroush

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

– Carol P. Christ

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

– Alice Walker

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

– Albert Einstein

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