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Quotes About Humanity

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
~ Simon Greenleaf
It may sound crazy to people, but I don't follow any spiritual leader or worship at any house of God. I just feel you should be good to people around you, your family and friends.
~ Gauri Khan
Covid-19 teaches us that we are all global citizens connected by a single virus that recognises none of our natural or man-made diversity: not the colour of our skin, nor our passports, or the gods we worship.
~ Abiy Ahmed
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.
~ Dennis Quaid
I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
~ Lydia Millet
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
At the end of the day, the reality is we're all losers, and we're all uncoordinated. We're the worst of all of the animals on earth, and there's something quite endearing about that.
~ Taika Waititi
I wouldn't wish my worst enemy bad luck.
~ Rob Cross
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
~ Josh Gad
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
~ J. D. Vance
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
~ Hesiod
I don't wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.
~ Lil Durk
In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
~ Jane D. Hull
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
~ Fernando Flores
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
~ Richard Engel
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.
As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
~ Ellen Key
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.
~ Yahya Jammeh
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
~ Linda Chavez