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No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.