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Quotes About Humanity

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
~ Charlie Haden
The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.
~ Colin Powell
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
~ Dave Grohl
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
~ David Cobley
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
~ Edward Zigler
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
~ Euripides
Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
~ Ezer Weizman
Art exists because life is not enough.
~ Ferreira Gullar
Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!
~ Frank Scoblete
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
~ Albert Schweitzer
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.
~ Alice Walker
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
~ Ansel Adams
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
~ Anthony Daniels
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
~ John Green
I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.
~ John Malkovich
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
~ John Steinbeck
Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.
~ Jon Foreman
If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
~ Joseph Campbell
I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.
~ Karen Armstrong
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
~ Katherine Cecil Thurston