Humanity
The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
Mankind collectively; the human race.
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.
Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
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Humanity Quotations
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Humanity Translations
humanity in Latin is clementia
humanity in Norwegian is menneskehet, mennesklighet
humanity in Spanish is humanidad
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