Quotes About Humanity

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.