"We are blind to each other's humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
Humanity quotes
Humanity
2.8K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Humanity
Browse quotes that often appear alongside humanity — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Humanity quotes (page 12 of 142)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
Read quote
13 likes
"The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
"Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security."
Read quote
13 likes
"Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!"
Read quote
13 likes
"His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth"
Read quote
13 likes
"I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
"Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death."
Read quote
13 likes
"The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses."
Read quote
13 likes
"The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law."
Read quote
13 likes
"I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
"Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo."
Read quote
13 likes
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Read quote
13 likes
"Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
Read quote
13 likes
"Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
Read quote
13 likes
"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."
Read quote
12 likes
"We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock."
Read quote
12 likes
"If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket."
Read quote
12 likes
"Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one."
Read quote
12 likes