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Quotes About Humanity

We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.
~ Peace Pilgrim
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
~ Richard Dawkins
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
~ Seneca the Younger
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.
~ Thomas Paine
Six foot six he stood on the groundHe weighed two hundred and thirty-five poundsBut I saw that giant of a man brought downTo his knees by love
~ Johnny Cash
The aurora of humanity will begin when we learn that love is our only power and kindness is our ineffable religion.
~ Debasish Mridha
Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Soul and mind are the powers of mankind
~ Akinwale Musa Oluseun
And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.
~ E.J. Patten, Return to Exile
Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.
~ Zaman Ali, Humanity
A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
~ Paul Eldridge
Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man
~ H. Rider Haggard, She
Krishna, Christ, Allah we are one but you idiot humans divided me
~ Anonymous
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
~ Diane Setterfield
The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.
~ Heather James, Fire
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.
~ Efraim Zuroff
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
~ John Bunyan
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
~ Phillips Brooks
Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
~ Sheila Cassidy
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
~ John Bunyan
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
~ Naguib Mahfouz