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Quotes About Humanity

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.
~ Dalai Lama
How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.
~ Carl H. Claudy
Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.
~ Rumi
The religion of humanity is love.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
~ Raymond Queneau
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not
~ Dalai Lama
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
~ Victor Hugo
People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
~ Andrew Jackson
My religion is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
~ Yogaswami
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
~ Albert Camus, The Plague
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
~ William James
There is no God and we are his prophets.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Kindness is our religion.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
~ A. Powell Davies
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
~ Matthieu Ricard
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
~ Bergen Evans