A Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
American - Novelist
Born: April 17, 1928

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Glen Duncan

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

M. H. Abrams

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Alan Bennett

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul

Rachel

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

J. M. Coetzee

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Alfred North Whitehead

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

P. T. Barnum

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Bernard Berenson

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

Rod Serling

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

Louis Farrakhan

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

William McKinley

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.

Herman Melville

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

Rebecca West

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