Humanity Quotes


You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi Humanity 249
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. John Locke Humanity 244
There is a great deal of human nature in people. Mark Twain Humanity 233
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. Brown vvi Elie Wiesel Humanity 220
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. Proverbs Humanity 212
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. Thurgood Marshall Humanity 205
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another. Adam Smith Humanity 200
A broken soul is not the absence of beauty but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. C. JoyBell C.Humanity 171
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Paul Farmer Humanity 146
Ad astra per aspera. To the stars through difficulties. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Humanity 142
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. Eileen Caddy Humanity 141
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. Sir William Hamilton Humanity 137
God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln Humanity 135
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. Albert Einstein Humanity 128
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. Plato Humanity 126
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. William Blake Humanity 121
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson Humanity 121
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. Charles Sumner Humanity 116
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain Humanity 114
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. Mahatma Gandhi Humanity 114
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus Humanity 110
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is. Unknown Humanity 110
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. Rudyard Kipling Humanity 109
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes Humanity 109
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Humanity 106
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates Humanity 102
The human spirit must prevail over technology. Albert Einstein Humanity 98
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. Herman Melville Humanity 97
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. G. K. Chesterton Humanity 97
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud Humanity 97
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant Humanity 96
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. Georg Buchner Humanity 96
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are? Ronald Reagan Humanity 95
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. Woodrow Wilson Humanity 94
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. Edgar Quinet Humanity 94
To save a man and thereby to spare a fathers agony and a mothers feelings is not to do a noble deed it is but an act of humanity. Alexandre Dumas Humanity 93
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. John Steinbeck Humanity 92
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher Humanity 92
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche Humanity 91
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. James Baldwin Humanity 91
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. Mark Twain Humanity 90
Im just another stupid human. Markus Zusak Humanity 90
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. pg. 39 Elie Wiesel Humanity 88
...Que no hay nada seguro en este mundo y que siempre por mucho que se quiera ocultar se descubre por fin el egoismo... Charles Baudelaire Humanity 88
Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Leonardo DaVinci Humanity 87
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. Source Unknown Humanity 85
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. Herman Melville Humanity 84
There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You dont have to accept responsibility for others or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanitys maelstrom from time to time or sit on the river bank and observe. Celia Stander Humanity 84
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn. Immanuel Kant Humanity 84
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give a smile a handshake a kiss an embrace a word of love a present a part of our life...all of our life. Henri J.M. Nouwen Humanity 83

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