Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.205^6.

Artists and poets are the raw nerve ends of humanity. By themselves they can do little to save humanity.Without them there would be little worth saving.

-Anonymous
Inscription on headstone in Green River Cemetery, Springs NY where Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, and other artists are buried. Quoted in the NewYork Times,17  Aug1993.

Martin Luther†was enforced to awake all antiquityand to call former times to his succour to make a party against the present time, so that the ancient authors both in divinityand in humanity which had long time slept in libraries began generally to be read and revolved.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1.

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet†they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

La passion est toute l'humanite¤  . Sans elle, la religion, l'histoire, le roman, l'art seraient inutiles. Passion is all of humanity.Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Come¤  die humaine, foreword.

   Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

-Barth, Karl
  Kirchliche Dogmatik vol.3, pt.2 (translated by H Knight as Church Dogmatics,1960).

We were put to Dickens as children but it never took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

-Bennett, Alan
  The Old Country, act 2.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

I hate'Humanity'and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 'Humanity'generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
Light On  A Dark Horse, ch.13.

I am out of humanity's reach.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

   Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  XLI Poems, no.2,'La Guerre'.

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

-Dewey,John
  Reconstruction in Philosophy.

The great house of our humanity No longer stands.

-Dunbar,William
  Ground Work: Before the War,'Bring It Up from the Dark'.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

-Garvey, Marcus
  'African Fundamentalism, a Racial Hierarchy and Empire for Negroes'.

L'humanite¤   est†une entreprise surhumaine. Humanity is†a superhuman undertaking.

-Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean
  Intermezzo, act1, sc.6.

I should have been glad to have humanity forget all about strayalcoholic drinks†but in the present stage of human progress, this vehicle of joy could not be generally suppressed by federal law.

-Hoover, Herbert Clark
  On prohibition. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, vol.1.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

-Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren
  Speech at Foyle's Literary Luncheon, London, in honour of his 75th birthday.

A'great' butler can only be, surely, one who can point to hisyears of serviceand say that hehas applied histalents to serving a great gentlemanöand through the latter, to serving humanity.

-Ishiguro, Kazuo
  The Remains of the Day,'Day Twoö Afternoon'.

The command 'Thou shalt not kill'must be binding on the conscience of humanity if the terrible tragedy and destiny of Cain is not to be repeated.

-PopeJohn Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyla
  Speech at Drogheda, Ireland, 29 Sep.

Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our humanity† Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroysthevery fabric of society.On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence.

-PopeJohn Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyla
  Speech at Drogheda, Ireland, 29 Sep.