Quotes About Humanity

Mountains and Hills not meet each other but People Will.

Some persons like to give others lightning and storm for their own profit, while there are also people that like the sun see shining for every one, without thinking. Jan Jansen

I'm here on this Planet for Give Love to Others, why They are Here I not Ask and Don't Know.

kindnesses is the power from the heart.

I'm Here On This Planet to Use my Energy to love others, For what others are Here i don't know.

Enemies are people whose stories you haven't yet heard and whose faces you haven't yet seen. —Irene Hasenberg Butter, Holocaust survivor, during an interview at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 13, 2013

Miss Louella says, 'Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, 'cause they can sho use it.

The idea that the Natives must all be removed and confined in their own kraals is in my opinion the greatest nonsense I have ever heard.

There's something singularly moving about that moment when this man—deaf and sick and misanthropic and self-torturing, at the same time one of the most extraordinary and boundlessly generous men our species has produced—greets us person to person, with glass raised, and hails us as friends.

He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn't lessen our own heartache. It doesn't diminish the fact that right then, you're dealing with one of the worst things that's ever happened to you.

I think the absence of hope removes all empathy. Then all you want is for the rest of the world to suffer like you do.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Lord, is it I . . .? There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us That it behoves not any of us To talk about the rest of us.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?