Quotes About Humanity

Naturally, I seek consolation in other people's suffering.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

He is not intimidated by silence, indifference, or rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

There's something very wrong with this world, and it isn't just the wars going on in Asia or the Middle East.

Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most miserable of all.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. Your

It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.

Yang menjaga kehidupan terus bergulir bukanlah perjuangan manusia dalam mencari kenikmatan, melainkan usaha mereka untuk melepaskan segala hal yang mereka anggap penting.

And all of us, one way or another, are insane.

I ask all those who hope to one day work for the good of humanity: never forget that even if you deliver up your body to be burned, you gain nothing if you have not Love. Nothing!

The only greatness is unselfish Love.

There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald.

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are kind. I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides hope enough for the world. I have sometimes