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Quotes About Humanity

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family
~ Mother Teresa
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
~ Meher Baba
We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.
~ Mother Teresa
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
~ Norman Mailer
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
~ Aldous Huxley
I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.
~ Alison Brie
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Life works best when we think of people as people.
~ John Green
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
~ Joseph Fiorenza
Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
~ Josephine Hart
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We've created life in our own image.
~ Stephen Hawking
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
~ George Saunders
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
~ Islom Karimov
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
~ Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
~ Dante Alighieri
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
~ Earl Blumenauer
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
~ Ernest Cline
Life is a disease.
~ Gail Godwin
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley