Quotes about Humanity

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.