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Quotes About Humanity

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.
~ John Legend
My big thing is people. I just love people in my life.
~ Jonathan Bennett
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
~ Joss Whedon
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
~ Karl Kraus
As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.
~ Kate Langley Bosher
Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria.
~ Kenji Goto
We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.
~ Lauren Oliver
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.
~ Leon Bourgeois
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
~ Leonard Cohen
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.
~ Madi Diaz
Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is the law of love that rules mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
~ Maria Thayer
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.
~ Marianne Williamson
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
~ Marianne Williamson