Quotes About Humanity

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.