Quotes About Humanity

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.