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Quotes About Humanity

Life on the planet is born of woman.
~ Adrienne Rich
The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~ Doris Lessing
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.
~ Unknown
Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.
~ Saint Augustine
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
~ Aldous Huxley
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
~ Margaret Atwood
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
~ William Shakespeare
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
~ Robert A Heinlein
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
~ Wangari Maathai
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
~ Lord Byron
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
~ Laurence Sterne
Life is so meaningful when you give to others and never want in return.
~ Unknown
Helping others without expecting anything in return is what gives life a real meaning.
~ Unknown
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
~ John Henry Newman
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
~ David Byrne
Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.
~ Guy Finley
Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man
~ Unknown
Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere
~ Dalai Lama
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course
~ Kahlil Gibran
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
~ Mother Teresa
God's love is bigger than all the love of men combined. A man can leave anytime when he feels tired, but God never gets tired of loving us.
~ Terry Mark
The entire world is dying for some amount of love. To give would be to share the excess that we have with someone who needs some.
~ Unknown