Quotes About Humanity

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.