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Quotes About Humanity

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
~ Caroline Myss
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
~ R. D. Laing
He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.
~ John Boyne
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
~ Pope John Paul II
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~ Luis Barragan
Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
~ Haruki Murakami
The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.
~ Naomi Klein
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
~ Alice Childress
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
~ Elon Musk
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
~ Dave Eggers
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
~ Gannicus
Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
~ Haile Selassie
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
~ Richard Attenborough
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
~ George Saunders
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
~ Barbara Lee
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
~ Auguste Comte
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
~ Angela Davis
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
~ Louise Erdrich
The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
~ Sarah Kane