Quotes About Humanity

Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.

[T]he satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive. Swift destroyed the human race; Mark Twain and Thurber enabled it to go on. We human beings are all absurd variations of one another in any case, and this is what comedy of all kinds puts down on paper.

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.

Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

We can't always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they're enduring.

...a letter is a joy of earth — it is denied the gods.

May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.

All human rules are more or less idiotic, I suppose. It is best so, no doubt. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race. Hence, we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. The Prince of Peace, under whose stainless banner we rally, came not to destroy, but to save, even the worst of enemies.

There can be poetry in the writings of few men; but it ought to be in the hearts and lives of all.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert upon events in the political field. But however that may be, and whatever fate may have in store for us, yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts of those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole, the lot of mankind would be still worse than in fact it even now is.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

Racism & Gender Discrimination. — One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Quotations can be a comedy or a drama, tell of the whole world or just a small piece of it.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

If it is dark, all men are black.

...human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life.