Quotes About Humanity

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.