Quotes About Humanity

Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

We're all human and life is complicated.