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Quotes About Humanity

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.
~ Michael Badnarik
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.
~ Michael Moore
All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Human life is too difficult for people.
~ Paul Engle
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
~ Pema Chodron
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.
~ Pope Francis
Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.
~ Robert Scheer
This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.
~ Tara Brach
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
~ William Butler Yeats
My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.
~ William Shatner
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
~ William Faulkner
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~ William Godwin
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
~ William Saroyan
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.
~ William Shakespeare
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
~ William Wordsworth
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
~ Abigail McCarthy
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
~ Agnes Repplier
Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
~ Alan Rudolph
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
~ Albert Einstein
Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.
~ Alison Hawthorne Deming