Quotes about Humanity
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Truth does not belong to an individual.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
— Henry David Thoreau
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
— Abraham Lincoln
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
— Nelson Mandela
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
— Khalil Gibran
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
— Michael Ignatieff
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
— Dolly Parton
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford