Top Humanity Quotes
Humanity Definition
(n.) The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
(n.) Mankind collectively; the human race.
(n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
(n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
(n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of sci...
Francis William Aston
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power, humanity, universe, science fiction, destruction, energy, earth, experiment, possibility, violence
As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress i...
Steven Magee
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environmental, nature, technology, humanity, growth, environment, progress, environmentalism, systems, natural
There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our em...
Alain de Botton
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alone, life, humanity, books, emotion, literature, jane austen, clarity, austen, comprehension
He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red...
Anthony Liccione
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equality, poetry, humanity, realization, light, breathing, shame, fortune, cigarette, heart beat