Quotes About Humanity

He was a naturally pacific, sociable man; he liked to think well of his fellow men, even an occupying German officer.

Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.

sometimes looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow, is like looking for the good in people

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no—I believe in people—I

A quote is the essence of a story. We all need stories to convey ideas, justice, anger, humanity, hope, laughter, learning, and whatever makes us understand or feel understood

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

Last week in an airport, a place I so often am, I noticed that the clerk who was helping me didn't ask me if I wanted a wheelchair, as I guess age guidelines required her to do. She just smiled and said she could see I didn't need one. On my return, another airline clerk looked only at her computer and so ordered a wheelchair, complete with attendant, that might have been needed somewhere else. To one, I was an individual human being. To the other, I was a group.

Though patriarchal cultures and religions have made hierarchy seem inevitable, human for 95 percent of history have been more likely to see the circle as our paradigm.

Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else.

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.

But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

The people's inclination to falsity best defines the human problem.

We don't need a better world, we need a better society.

We should only be concerned with being better for the world, not the world being better for us because the former is the way to achieving the latter and the world is already best for us.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.