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Quotes About Humanity

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
~ Spike Jonze
Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.
~ Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
~ Anne Frank
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
~ Andy Rooney
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~ Princess Diana
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
~ Wendy Mass, The Candymakers
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
~ James Stewart
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Muhammad Ali
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~ Samuel Johnson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop
Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.
~ Robert W. Service
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.
~ Wayne Dyer
The world exists for the sake of kindness.
~ Rashi
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
~ Emma Thompson
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
~ Roald Dahl
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
~ Colin Powell