Quotes about Humanity
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Leonard Sweet
We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.
- Les Brown
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
- Joseph Brodsky
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
- George Washington Carver
Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts.
- Janette Oke
Some days one has no choice but to deal with Society's filth....Our world isn't getting any better--or cleaner Elizabeth. I don't know how people can treat one another the way they do. Or themselves, for that matter.
- Janette Oke
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
- Mahatma Gandhi