Quotes about Humanity
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again
— Og Mandino
each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.
— Oprah Winfrey
As a spirit dwelling in the ever-evolving human experience, I know that I am no better or worse than any other being. I simply am. You simply are. We are connected.
— Oprah Winfrey
My pain is your pain because all pain is the same
— Oprah Winfrey
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
— Oscar Wilde
It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
— Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
— Oscar Wilde
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
— Oscar Wilde
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
— Confucius
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
— Confucius
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius