Quotes About Humanity

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

The human body, again, is the greatest of its kind in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all the animals and all the angels, so say the Scriptures. None is greater than man, for even the Devas or gods will have to come down again and attain salvation through a human body. For, man alone attains to perfection, and not even the Devas.

i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to ' be and do' is not a given.

In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.

I no longer remember which psychiatrist wrote a dissertation demonstrating that the assassins hadn't lost their moral bearings: they knew how to discern Good and Evil; it was the sense of reality that was missing. In their eyes, the victims did not belong to humankind;

We must remain aware that, despite the veneer of civilization and the outward manifestations of culture and refinement, insidious atavistic impulses remain in every country and no nation has a monopoly on atrocity.

Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.

At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators.

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.

Behold the man.