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"True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the passing moment; it is eternal, though we evanescent men experience only a fragment of it. We have no right to imperil the happiness of posterity by impudently tinkering with the heritage of humanity."
"We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another."
"I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question."
"Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large."
"Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest."
"I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity."
"With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity."
"There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization."
"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
"You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity."
"Lies are essential to humanity."
"The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind."
"How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil."
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
"Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world."
"History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression."
"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."
"The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations."
"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
