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Quotes About Humanity

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
~ Daniel H. Pink
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
~ Henry Van Dyke
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
~ Morris Dees
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
~ John Trudell
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
~ George Mason
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
~ Gina Bellman
You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
~ William Turner
I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
~ Jordan Peele
I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
~ Jason Katims
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
~ Nelson Mandela
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
~ Fidel Castro
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
~ Joyce Meyer
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
World history is a court of judgment.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
World history is tragic.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
~ Jeremy Gilley
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
~ William Temple
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
~ Thomas Dekker
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
~ John Denham
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
~ Immanuel Kant
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
~ Anna Gunn