Quotes About Humanity

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

We are made kind by being kind.

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Your luck is how you treat people.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.