Quotes About Humanity

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.