Humanity Quotes

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Let it be said...that it was our generation that truly made a difference and that it was our guiding lights of love, peace and kindness that helped us.

The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system.

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

We are a only on this majestic earth for a brief and short period time but of history. Why not use this time in kindness to make humanity a better and brighter place for all❤

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

What need does the earth have of us?

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Timshel - thou mayest

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.