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Quotes About Humanity

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.
~ Hozier
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
~ Che Guevara
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
~ Carl Jung
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
~ Elif Safak
So you say you love the poor? Name them.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
~ J. Paul Getty
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
~ Petrarch
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
~ Charles Bukowski
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
~ Desmond Tutu
I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
~ John Green
Small things done with great love will change the world.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.
~ Fethullah Gulen
if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.
~ Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
To love the world is to be afflicted.
~ Yunus Emre
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
~ Pope John XXIII
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
~ E.M. Forster
Love must express itself as service
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
~ Georg Brandes
Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.
~ Pope Francis
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
~ Bruce Gilden
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
~ Paulo Freire