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Quotes About Humanity

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
~ Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Life is a very emotional experience.
~ Tony Goldwyn
It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.
~ Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
~ Kohta Hirano
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
~ Anne Frasier, Hush
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.
~ Chris Christie
All human life is precious.
~ George W. Bush
I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.
~ John McCain
Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ("reverence for life").
~ Albert Schweitzer
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
~ Angelina Jolie
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
~ C. S. Lewis
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
~ Frederick Lenz
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
~ George Orwell
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
~ Hannah
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
~ Isabel Allende
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
~ John Lydon
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?
~ John William Draper
I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.
~ Jonah Hill
When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
~ Kevin Myers