Quotes About Humanity

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

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

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.

Empujada por los cambios en la manera de adquirir, usar y retener el poder, la humanidad debe encontrar, y encontrará, nuevas fórmulas para gobernarse

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

La betise et la méchanceté humaine n'ont decidement aucun limite

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause? Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never.     ORGON

Hem dünyada kim var, hayat?nda bir kez olsun akl?n? kaybetmeyen?

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Kogu inimkond on nii vastik rämps ja park, et mind solvata võiks, kui näiksin neile tark.

Aspire to the knowledge which is in the family, and feel the sweet charms which the love of study instils into peoples hearts. Far from being a submissive slave to the laws of men, wed yourself to Philosophy, sister, which elevates us above the whole human race, and invests reason with sovereign sway, subjecting to her laws the animal part, of which the gross appetite places us on a level with brutes.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.

The world issued an open invitation to humanity to fail itself. To be selfish and small. Mean, even evil at times.

What I feel in that kitchen is the way humans are so flawed and so perfect, and I want to share bodies. You know your old dog? That's how I feel—I want to climb on people, breathe their breath, lick the inside of stranger's mouths. I don't know these two, but who do we ever know, really, past the skin? How do we get there?

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

The journey inward is what gives meaning to the life outside ourselves. Not in any static, dogmatic, once-for-all way either, but in a way that grows and develops and changes to meet different circumstances, different stages of development. Contemplation is not an optional extra -- it is, as much as action, part of the very stuff of being human." 

J'ai la foi en l'humain en autant que l'humain reconnait ce qu'il y a de bon en lui.