Quotes About Humanity

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.