Oscar Wilde Quotes About Humanity
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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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