Quotes about Humanity
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
— Mother Teresa
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
— Victor Hugo
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
— Norman Vincent Peale
There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.
— John Wooden
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
— Martin Luther
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
— Mark Twain
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
— Albert Schweitzer
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
— Desmond Tutu