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Quotes About Humanity

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!
~ Victor Hugo
Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.
~ Toni Sorenson
If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.
~ Rose McIver
Mother Teresa did not became famous by caring just about herself
~ Manuel Corazzari
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
~ Oskar Schindler
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
~ Edward Said
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H.G. Wells
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
~ Dan Quayle
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
~ Whitney M. Young
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.
~ Josephine Baker
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
~ James Lovelock
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
~ George R. R. Martin
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
~ Marc Bloch
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
~ Studs Terkel
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.
~ Charles Bolden
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
~ James A. Baldwin
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
~ Socrates
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
~ Matthew Arnold
History is the autobiography of a madman.
~ Alexander Herzen