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Quotes About Humanity

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.
~ Patricia Arquette
Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
~ Paul Auster
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
~ Paul Auster
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
~ Paul Bremer
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.
~ Paul Feyerabend
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
~ Paul Nurse
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.
~ Paul Ryan
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.
~ Pema Chodron
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
~ Pema Chodron
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
~ Peter Kreeft
I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
~ Peter S. Beagle
If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.
~ Peter Singer
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
~ Phillips Brooks
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
~ Phyllis Bottome
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
~ Orson Scott Card
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
~ Rachel Holmes
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
~ Rajneesh
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
~ Rajneesh
There is no God other than life itself.
~ Rajneesh
You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.
~ Ram Dass
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
~ Randall Jarrell
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
~ Raphael Soyer