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Quotes About Humanity

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
~ Alice Munro
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.
~ Gautama Buddha
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
~ Jack Kornfield
We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.
~ Jamie Tworkowski
What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.
~ Narayanan Krishnan
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
~ Plutarch
Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death
~ Ignacio Ellacuria
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
~ Mary Webb
Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
~ Wayne Teasdale
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
~ Bernard Nathanson
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.
~ Christopher Moore
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
~ C. S. Lewis
Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.
~ Pope Francis
I love humanity but I hate people.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.
~ Karel Capek
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
~ Ella Maillart
Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
~ Benjamin Zander
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
~ Bruce Barton
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
~ Leon Kass
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
~ Lester Bangs
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.
~ Steven Weinberg
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
~ Thomas Hobbes