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Quotes About Humanity

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
~ Cornel West
When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.
~ Keith Raniere
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
~ Angelique Kidjo
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
~ Publilius Syrus
I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.
~ Tanmaya Guru
It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
~ Wilbur D. Nesbit
Sometimes you can save someone's whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.
~ Debra Anastasia
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
~ Aneurin Bevan
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.
~ Bryan Stevenson
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
~ Maria Montessori
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
~ Jimmy Carter
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
~ Roger Sherman
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
~ Émile Durkheim
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
~ Paul Tillich
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
~ Thabo Mbeki
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
~ Zygmunt Bauman
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
~ Auguste Comte
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
~ Robert M. Hensel