quotes by topic Humanity

" Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Business , Advertising , Humanity
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" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "
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Edmund Burke
May , Justice , Humanity , Reason
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" 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. "
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Edgar Allan Poe
Will , Now , Faith , Humanity
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" The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. "
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H. L. Mencken
Humanity
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" The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. "
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Georg Brandes
Truth , Time , Humanity , Errors , Inheritance
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" A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. "
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Georg Brandes
Love , World , Humanity , Compassion , Lying
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" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "
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George Bernard Shaw
Love , Truth , Knowledge , Glory , Virtue , Humanity
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" The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. "
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Ibrahim Babangida
Technology , Books , Word , Humanity , Reason , Information
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" The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. "
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Irwin Shaw
Talent , May , Humanity , Family , Romantic , Writer
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" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "
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Isaac Asimov
Future , Humanity , Superstition , Burden , Folly
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