Quotes About Humanity

We are all cells in the body of humanity

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.

Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.

Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth — Sin supreme without appeal.

The worst thing I do is to exist. When I think of that I understand A human's greatest crime is to be born!

Oh, those stars, Those stars, that too far up from human blame To clear themselves, or careless of the charge, Still bear upon their shining shoulders all The guilt men shift upon them!

Qué os admira? ¿Qué os espanta? si fue mi maestro el sueño, y estoy temiendo en mis ansias, que he de despertar, y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prisión, y cuando no sea el soñarlo solo basta: pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana en fin pasa como sueño; y quiero hoy aprovecharla el tiempo que me durare, pidiendo de nuestras faltas perdón, pues de pechos nobles es tan propio el perdonarlas.

See how her expression changes when she looks at you? It's the love light shining from within...Lucky we are when we're seen through the light of love, be it shining in the eyes of human or beast. Some folks go all their days without ever seeing it directed at them. It's a splendid, special look. Cherish it. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

history is not only made by people, it is people.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are."19

The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.

People are people, Meg, no matter what their skin color is or how much money they have or what country they come from. We all breathe and feel joy and pain. We all hate and love and laugh and cry and bleed. And no matter how different we may be on the outside, God loves us all and never leaves us.