Quotes About Humanity

Of all emotions, compassion is the highest that man can experience. When someone lives in compassion, not just love, only then he is a real seeker, because very easily love becomes attachment and a bias. Love can become a great prejudice against you, somebody else, or anything.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." Largely

I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He never will get completely over the memory of the bars.

The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. Malcolm X! he called out--and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. Do you mind shaking hands with a white man? Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings.

I think the white man has to face the fact that black people in this country are tired of sitting around waiting for the white man to make up his mind that we are human beings.

Being cruel because you could only revealed your weakness. Compassion was always stronger.

Die Menschen sind für einander geboren. Also belehre oder dulde sie!

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

I like to believe that we are more alike in our positive experiences than in our negative ones that what binds us is stronger than what separates us.

El infierno está vacío y todos los demonios están aquí. William Shakespeare, La tempestad

Deformación de un texto de Sartre en Huis clos, la frase original decía: El infierno es el Otro.

We are the other of the other

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Marcus Aurelius

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.