Quotes About Humanity

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.