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• Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Topics in Humanity

• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Challenge, Humanity

  Tags in Human

• One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

  Georg Buchner

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Essence

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

  Georg Buchner

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Strides

• A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Humanity, Love

• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Inheritance

• The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can’t put anything into a character that you haven’t got within you.

  Genevieve Bujold

  Topics in Honesty, Humanity

  Tags in Acting

• He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

  Gene Wolfe

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Things

• We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

  Shelley Morrison

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Compassion

• I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Believe, Ego

• But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

  Thomas Day

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Remember

• There’s a call to adventure. It’s something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  Gary Gygax

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Adventure

• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Rival, Global

• I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Actress, Supposed

• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Humanity, Love

  Tags in Thinkers

• It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in People

• The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity, Spirituality

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Understanding

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Freedom

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Edgar Quinet

  Topics in Future, Humanity