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Quotes About Humanity

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
~ Orson Welles
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
~ Lee Corso
Kindness effects more than severity.
~ Aesop
Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.
~ Laura Huxley
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
~ Jean Renoir
Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
~ Ann M. Fudge
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.
~ Barack Obama
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
~ Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
~ Edith Cavell
I won't trade humanity for patriotism.
~ Immortal Technique
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter's flaming wings
~ Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
~ Graham Greene
God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!
~ Anton Chekhov
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
~ Thomas Jefferson
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
~ Maria Montessori
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
~ Barack Obama
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
~ Francis of Assisi
It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.
~ Prem Rawat
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
~ Cesar Chavez
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
~ George Bernard Shaw