Quotes about Humanity

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion. id tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt; only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

The unselfish man, even though he finds himself involved in riches, stands aloof, in his mind, from the idea of "exclusive possession", and so escapes the bitterness and fear and anxiety which ever accompany the covetous spirit. He does not regard any of his outward accretions as being too valuable to lose, but he regards the virtue of unselfishness as being too valuable to the world - to suffering humanity - to lose or cast away.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

It is better to win souls than to conquer nations.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.