Quotes About Humanity

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

Music is the universal language.

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.