#humanity

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #carries #country #first #furthest

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. ↗

— Goran Persson

#another #fellow #finest #humanity #members

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. ↗

— Goran Persson

#church #humanity #lies #made #open

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

#grace #humanity #love #love is

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#atrocities #crises #cultural #exchanges #humanity

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#only #potential #real #scratched #surface

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#beauty #celibacy #even #having #humanity