Quotes About Humanity

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Kindness affects more than severity.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help, give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship, give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.