Quotes about Humanity
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
— David O. McKay
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
— Desmond Tutu
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
— Peter Kreeft
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
— Phillips Brooks
The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.
— Pope Francis
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
— Oprah Winfrey
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
— Victor Hugo
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
— Joseph Addison
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
— Mahatma Gandhi