humanity Quotes

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:happiness humanity

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:humanity travel

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:humanity grief

“For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“I speak to you as just another human being; as a simple monk.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

topic:humanity humility

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