Quotes About Humanity

Så här uttryckte Publius Terentius Afer det för mer än tvåtusen år sedan: Jag är människa: inget mänskligt är mig främmande. Och det är en identitet som bör kunna förena oss alla.

The boundary of your state is not the boundary of your moral concern.

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.

How cruel the atomic bomb is to an innocent child, Sensei.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

If I had a heart

But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

That is all that makes life worth our while—to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

Isn't a dead language rather a sad thing, Janet? Once it lived and burned and glowed. People said loving things in it…bitter things…wise and silly things in it. I wonder who was the very last person to utter a sentence in living Latin.

I do not know, my friend. It seems wrong somehow that the success of a race be measured by its ability to do violence.

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

No religion is higher than humanity

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.