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Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

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Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

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Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.

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Humanity is the equity of the heart.

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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

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Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

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O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

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Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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Human kind cannot bear much reality.

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The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

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