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Quotes About Humanity

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.
~ Tim Allen
Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.
~ Tom Scharpling
And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.
~ Dallas Willard
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
~ Daniel Defoe
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
~ e. e. cummings
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
~ Margaret Heffernan
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
My work is writing, but my real work is being.
~ William Saroyan
My work is about helping humanity.
~ Agnes Denes
The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.
~ Ann Dowd
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.
~ Anne Frank
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
~ Ayn Rand
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
~ Ban Ki-moon
It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
~ Carol Shields
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
~ Christopher Hampton
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~ E. B. White
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
~ Edward Abbey
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
~ Edward Abbey
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.
~ Floyd Cooper
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt