#humanity

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#art #benefactor #forces #humanity #mankind

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #meaning #meaning of #meaning of life #serve

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#body #his #hold #humanity #i

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#despots #fact #generous #humanity #liberation

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#human #humanity #only #together #up

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#elite #fraction #humanity #more #productive

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#each #humanity #itself #live #most

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#breeds #either #humanity #makes #tolerates

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV. ↗

— John Walsh

#america #bring #humanity #i #i am

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#be nice #believe #better #better world #compassion