Quotes about Humanity
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
— Leo Buscaglia
No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
— Helen Keller
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
— Oscar Wilde
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth