Quotes About Humanity

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.