Quotes About Humanity

I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.

Surrounded by progress, I feel a nagging sense of our species' regression.

Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.

A stable, peaceful society is the training ground for humanity, just as caged animals, removed from the violent unpredictability of the wild, are influenced by the behaviour of their captors in time.

A volte penso che ci sia un rapporto tra il decadimento dell'umanità e la prosperità e il benessere in cui viviamo. La prosperità e il benessere sono obiettivi anche necessari che il genere umano persegue nella sua lotta per il progresso, ma generano profonde e temibili contraddizioni. Il genere umano sta infatti distruggendo con le proprie mani alcune delle qualità che possiede.

Mio padre pensò che tutti gli uomini, nell'attimo prima di morire, meritano rispetto.

Se qualcuno piange vuol dire che è ancora vivo. Piangete pure, piccoli miei.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.