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Quotes About Humanity

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?
~ Georg Buchner
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
~ George Eliot
For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
~ George MacDonald
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
~ George Saunders
For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.
~ Graham Greene
I love humanity, I love the way people look
~ Grimes
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.
~ Hassan Blasim
The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.
~ Helen Beardsley
Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
~ Helen Keller
There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.
~ Hillary Clinton
I never met someone I did not love.
~ Howard Finster
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
~ J. J. Abrams
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good
~ Jackie Ballard
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another
~ Jane Urquhart
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
~ Jean Cocteau
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.
~ Jennifer Stone
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
~ Jesse Jackson
A world without love would be no world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe