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Quotes About Humanity

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
~ John Adams
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
~ Jane Addams
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
~ John Stuart Mill
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
~ George Sand
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
~ Joseph Heller
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
~ George Orwell
All pain is the same.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
~ Victor Hugo
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
~ Anthony D. Williams
The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.
~ Hilaire Belloc
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Imagine others complexly.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
~ Amit Ray
For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.
~ Theocritus
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.
~ Spencer Rascoff