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  • During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Humanity Quotes , World Quotes
  • It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Organization Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Humanity Quotes , Age Quotes
  • ‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , People Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Men Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Joy Quotes , Humanity Quotes