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Quotes About Humanity

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
~ Mother Teresa
There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!
~ Morrissey
Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.
~ Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
~ Garth Nix, Superior Saturday
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
~ Rachel Hamilton
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
~ Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
~ Alasdair Gray
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
~ Albert Camus
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
~ Albert Camus
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
~ Albert Camus
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
~ Albert Schweitzer
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
~ Alice Hoffman
Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?
~ Allen West
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.
~ Amanda McBroom
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
~ Amelia Barr
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
~ Andre Gide
You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
~ Angela Rockwood
Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
~ David Levithan
Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.
~ Laura Huxley
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
~ Albert Schweitzer