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Quotes About Humanity

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My religion teaches me to love all equally.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
~ Israel Zangwill
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
~ Bill Vaughan
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
~ Yann Martel
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
~ Israel Zangwill
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
~ Walter Lippmann
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
~ Arundhati Roy
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
~ Erwin McManus
I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
~ Dalai Lama
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
~ H. L. Mencken
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
~ Langston Hughes
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
~ Albert Camus
When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
~ Rumi
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.
~ Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer