Quotes about Humanity
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
— St. Augustine
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
— Carl Sagan
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
— George Eliot
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
— John Adams
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
— St. Basil
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
— Viktor E. Frankl
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
— Max Lucado
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
— Anne Frank
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
— Khalil Gibran
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
— Charles Dickens