Quotes About Humanity

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others.

Kindness is the essence of truth, when we are kind toward others it reflects our true self.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice and show some humanity, care and dignity.