Quotes About Humanity

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.