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Quotes About Humanity

It must be a cruel joke of nature that people who are so bad for us, make us feel so good.
~ Unknown
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
~ George Orwell
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.
~ Dylan Thomas
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't look for the reasons before helping others, the fact that we all are human is sufficient enough!!
~ Unknown
If you want to see how rich you are, then don't count your money. Just drop a tear from your eye see how many hands come to hold it.
~ Unknown
A person full of compassion can hold the pain of the world without letting it crush you.
~ Unknown
On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four
~ Tom Lehrer
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
~ Bill Clinton
Family is pivotal, beyond the immediate family is the family of mankind. Connection with others, the need to feel others as a part of ourselves and ourselves as a part of them is an impulse native to all of us. We call people without this connectedness sick.
~ Kishore Bansal
We all do better when we work together, our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more. Eid Mubarak.
~ Unknown
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Democracy is the Freedom of Humanity in all aspects of Life.
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?
~ David Levithan
To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.
~ Jean Vanier
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
~ Lillian Hellman
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
~ Archibald MacLeish
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
~ George Santayana
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~ Anna Julia Cooper