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Humanity Quotes


"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."


"With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can't afford a life."


"I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me."


"Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business."


"I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same."


"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles."


"When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn."


"Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect."


"Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind."


"Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out."


"Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself."


"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."


"I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem."


"Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be."


"Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect."


"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."


"India believes in taking everyone together. Nepal was rattled with an earthquake. We provided assistance to them. We did so, on the grounds of humanity. Be it Yemen or Maldives, we tried to provide assistance at our best. Humanity is our central inspiration."


"Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane."


"If you see only goodness in people, then people will be good."


"Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions."


"When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews."


"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."


"Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect."


"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."


"After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."


"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."


"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."


"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."


"Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential."
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