Quotes About Humanity

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.