Quotes About Humanity

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature