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Quotes About Humanity

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.
~ Edie Falco
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
~ Sidney Poitier
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
~ Confucius
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
~ Miep Gies
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.
~ Alicia Alonso
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.
~ Lisa Hunt
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
~ Oren Lyons
In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
~ Charlie Chaplin
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
~ Paulo Freire
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
~ George Weinberg
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
~ Terence McKenna
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
~ Walter Lippmann
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~ Emma Goldman
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
~ Stephen Levine
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
~ Tony Kushner
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
~ Aldous Huxley
When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.
~ Leon Brown
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
~ King Hussein I