Quotes About Humanity

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.