Quotes About Humanity

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Let's be honest, part of the whole great March of Humanity is just swinging your arms and walking, just smiling and moving forward.

women are proof than man was just God's first draft.

But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it's not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.

And reading all different kinds of books is not simply reading all different kinds of books; it's a way of becoming more fully human and more humane.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader The Holy Bible Elizabeth Bishop Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives, translated by Natasha Wimmer

His point: you don't have to travel the world to see the ways we mistreat one another; it's as close as the street outside our windows.

When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)