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Quotes About Humanity

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
~ Mother Teresa
I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.
~ Angelina Jolie
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
~ Anton Chekhov
I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
~ Bill Mollison
As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.
~ Claude-Michel Schonberg
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.
~ Frantz Fanon
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
~ Harper Lee
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
~ James Russell Lowell
Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.
~ John Ruskin
When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.
~ Justin Rosenstein
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
~ Leopold Kronecker
My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.
~ Unknown
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
~ Lin Yutang
In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
~ Mary Stuart Masterson
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
~ Sigmund Freud
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
~ Marjorie Benton Cooke
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
~ Milan Kundera
Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
~ Nellie L. McClung
I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.
~ Novak Djokovic
My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.
~ Philip K. Dick
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
~ Robert Breault
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.
~ Robert Ellsberg