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Quotes About Humanity

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.
~ Negin Farsad
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
~ Paul Begala
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
~ Orson Scott Card
Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.
~ Rachel Joyce
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
~ Raymond Chandler
The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.
~ Rob Nilsson
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
~ Rupert Friend
Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.
~ Steve Sailer
What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
~ Ted Dekker
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
~ Terence McKenna
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.
~ Tom Hiddleston
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
~ Walter Isaacson
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
~ William James
Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.
~ Fisher Amelie, Greed
Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson