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Quotes About Humanity

Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.
~ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
~ Adam Smith
I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
~ Pope Francis
Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.
~ Wallace Thurman
Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.
~ Tom Baker
I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.
~ Jim Carrey
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~ Wellington Mara
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
~ Laozi
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
~ John F. Kennedy
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
~ E. W. Howe
I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
~ Mother Teresa
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
~ Rebecca West
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
~ Dalai Lama
I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.
~ Hayley Atwell
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
~ William Shakespeare
Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.
~ Juan Somavia
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
~ José Saramago, Seeing
We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
~ Walter Dean Myers
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
~ Mencius
What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
~ Thomas Friedman
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.
~ Mohammed Dib
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
~ Cesar Chavez