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Quotes About Humanity

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
~ Chinua Achebe
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~ Ruth Benedict
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
~ Albert Schweitzer
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
~ Mos Def
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
~ Carlos Santana
Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
~ Sargent Shriver
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
~ Albert Einstein
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
~ E.M. Forster, Howards End
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
~ David O. McKay
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
~ Rod Serling
Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
~ Michael Douglas
All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.
~ Emo Philips
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.
~ Rumi
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
~ Arundhati Roy
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.
~ Billy Bishop
Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.
~ Sari Nusseibeh
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~ Jimmy Carter
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn't changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.
~ Maximilian Schell
My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.
~ Frank Capra