Quotes About Humanity

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.