Quotes About Humanity

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

But the meaning is to walk in the ways of the Lord. As He clothes the naked so do thou also clothe the naked; as He visited the sick, so do thou also visit the sick; as he comforted mourners, so do Thou also comfort mourners" (Sotah 14a).

He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.

Yet our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but rather how to remain human in the skyscrapers. NOTES 1 Portions of this section are based on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951).

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

To most of us a person, a human being, seems to be a maximum of being, the ceiling of reality; we think that to personify is to glorify. Yet do not some of us realize at times that a person is no superlative, that to personify the spiritually real is to belittle it? A personification may be both a distortion and a depreciation.

We must constantly remember: we spoil and God restores. How ugly is the way in which we spoil, and how good and how beautiful is the way in which He restores.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.