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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide, Les Nouvelles Nourri
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
Orson Scott Card
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Terry Pratchett
It is your human environment that makes climate
Mark Twain
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
Stephen King
There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan Kundera
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.
What a beautiful world we're destroying.
James Dye
Man lies down and does not rise until the heavens are no more. They will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Elizabeth Janeway
