Quotes About Humanity

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that.

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that's what I want...peace for the world and love.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.