Quotes about Humanity
What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.
— William Wilberforce
When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.
— William Wilberforce
The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
There is one great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
— William Wordsworth
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
— William Wordsworth
A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
— William Wordsworth
Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.
— William Wordsworth
The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.
— William Wordsworth
No other than the very heart of man, As found among the best of those who live-- Not unexalted by religious faith, Nor uninformed by books, good books, though few-- In Nature's presence: thence may I select Sorrow, that is not sorrow, but delight; And miserable love, that is not pain To hear of, for the glory that redounds Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
— William Wordsworth
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth