Quotes About Humanity

Somebody said, 'We are real only in moments of kindness.

58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).

218. As her witness, I can testify to no reason, no lesson. But I can say this: in watching her, sitting with her, helping her, weeping with her, touching her, and talking with her, I have seen the bright pith of her soul. I cannot tell you what it looks like, exactly, but I can say that I have seen it.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

Mary's Meals is a series of lots of little acts of love. If you put all those acts of sacrifice together, it creates a beautiful thing - Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Mary's Meals Founder and CEO

The purpose of human life is to expand love.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

We may agree that genocidal violence cannot be understood as rational; yet, we need to understand it as thinkable.

This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust...

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Me di cuenta de que sin palabras los humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos la cordura

Sin palabras los seres humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos el juicio

Reality is just a nice way of saying "tragedy." The truth is, people are vain and mean!

If there was ever a species that deserved purging from the surface of the planet, it is humanity. We are, or should be, a temporary infestation or infection, a smart virus awaiting its divine antidote.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

All around these streets , the dead and forgotten - mostly travellers born three thousand miles away, and four hundred years once dreamed and schemed, full of sound and fury. They were real and vital, as yet undimmed by posterity, and lived and loved with every imaginable kind of human feeling until at last they returned to dust.