Quotes About Humanity

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.