220 Humanity Quotes to Inspire Kindness and Compassion

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Famous Humanity Quotes

Humanity is the equity of the heart. — Confucius

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. — Confucius

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

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. — Desmond Tutu

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. — Daniel D. Palmer

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. — Albert Schweitzer

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. — Milan Kundera

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. — Walter Savage Landor

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us. — Maurice Nicoll

Our true nationality is mankind. — H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind. — H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality - Susan B. Anthony

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality — Susan B. Anthony

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz

Short Humanity Quotes

  • We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key. — Kendrick Lamar
  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Thomas Huxley
  • Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant
  • I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. — Joseph Stalin
  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein
  • Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. — Amartya Sen
  • I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity. — Thomas Sankara
  • People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James

Humanity Image Quotes

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. - Zakir Naik quote

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II quote

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. — Queen Elizabeth II

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Aldous Huxley quote

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. - Joseph Addison quote

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison

There is only one race, the human race. - Robert Sobukwe quote

There is only one race, the human race. — Robert Sobukwe

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. - Alexander Hamilton quote

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. - Thomas Hobbes quote

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. - Mark Twain quote

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. - Mary Mcleod Bethune quote

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Plato quote

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. - Antonio Gaudi quote

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi quote

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. - Charles Bukowski quote

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. — Charles Bukowski

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. - Milton H. Erickson quote

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. - Ibn Khaldun quote

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. — Ibn Khaldun

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt quote

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein quote

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. - Doug Larson quote

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. — Doug Larson

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. - El Lissitzky quote

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar quote

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar

Humanity quote I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Kindness Humanity Quotes

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. — Grace Kelly

Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell

Humanity quote All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. — Ida B. Wells

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. — Charlie Chaplin

Humanity quote Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. — Deepak Chopra

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. — Martha C. Nussbaum

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. — Francis Schaeffer

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation. — Auguste Comte

Deep Humanity Quotes

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E. E. cummings

Humanity quote It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met. — Madeleine L'Engle

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. — Albert Einstein

Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern. — William Wallace

Humanity quote Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great. — Leonard Bernstein

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell. — Robert Bridges

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not. — Bo Lozoff

Service To Humanity Quotes

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. — Parker J. Palmer

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Humanity quote The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a c
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.

Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights. — Hugo Chavez

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. — Mother Teresa

Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey

Humanity quote The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day be restored to their historic national home and there enter on a new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity. — Warren G. Harding

Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service. — Sathya Sai Baba

Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station. — Abdu'l-Bahá

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity. — Azim Premji

Love And Humanity Quotes

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. — Bob Marley

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori

Humanity quote Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. — Phillis Wheatley

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow

Humanity quote When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved. — John of the Cross

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo

Respect Humanity Quotes

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. — Jackie Robinson

Humanity quote One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.
One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object — Magda Gerber

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right. — Aretha Franklin

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. — Thurgood Marshall

Humanity quote The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. — Rigoberta Menchu

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world. — Ban Ki-moon

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship. — Mas Oyama

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Serve Humanity Quotes

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race. — Martin Luther

To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood. — Abdu'l-Bahá

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. — M. Scott Peck

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident — Baron de Montesquieu

Humans are basically habit machines… I think learning how to break habits is actually a very important meta skill and can serve you in life almost better than anything else. — Naval Ravikant

For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity. — Shoghi Effendi

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. — Louis Farrakhan

Lost Humanity Quotes

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves. — Andy Goldsworthy

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. — William Lloyd Garrison

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. — Stefan Zweig

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley

One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley

We've lost a lot of faith in mankind and humanity and the human body's capacity to heal itself. — Gary Brecka

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. — M. Scott Peck

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale. — Harrison Ford

No Humanity Quotes

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. — Malcolm X

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. — Erik Erikson

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. — Saadi Shirazi

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence. — Michelle Obama

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. — Saadi Shirazi

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image. — Oscar Romero

Helping Humanity Quotes

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection. — Francis of Assisi

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation. — Walter E. Williams

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you. — Pope Benedict XVI

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth. — Erin Brockovich

I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art. — Romero Britto

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Humanity And Society Quotes

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design. — Jacque Fresco

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. 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. — Nelson Mandela

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society. — Marsden Wagner

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Quincy Adams

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to. — Emile Durkheim

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. — Samuel Adams

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. — Dianne Feinstein

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. — Frances Harper

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. — Northrop Frye

Future Of Humanity Quotes

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. — Sayings

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development. — Yuri Gagarin

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. — Wilder Penfield

Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family — Ban Ki-moon

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest — Thabo Mbeki

Common Humanity Quotes

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. — Pauli Murray

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? — Mark Twain

Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice. — Pearl Primus

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. — Bill Bradley

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. — Jimmy Carter

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces. — Gad Saad

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens

Faith In 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

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. - Kathrine Switzer

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela

I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth. — John Wesley

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind. — Anton Chekhov

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa

Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely. — Christine Caine

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves. — Pope John Paul II

Shared Humanity Quotes

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more — Pope Francis

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. — M. F. K. Fisher

There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. — Barack Obama

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We sincerely call upon all countries to hold dear humanity’s shared values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom; to promote mutual understanding and forge closer bonds with other peoples; and to respect the diversity of civilizations. — Xi Jinping

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — A.C. Grayling

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. — Pema Chodron

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle

Humankind Quotes

Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King

The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. — Alphonse Mucha

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. — Grace Lee Boggs

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. — Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. — Chief Seattle

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind. — Queen Elizabeth II

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

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More Humanity Quotes

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. - Ludwig Wittgenstein quote

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. - Leonardo da Vinci quote

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo da Vinci

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. - Augustus quote

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. — Augustus

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. - Fyodor Dostoevsky quote

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. - John C. Maxwell quote

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. — John C. Maxwell

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. - Emily Dickinson quote

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. — Emily Dickinson

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. - Rei Kawakubo quote

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. — Rei Kawakubo

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud quote

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. - Mary Baker Eddy quote

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. — Mary Baker Eddy

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict quote

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James quote

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. - Coretta Scott King quote

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. — Coretta Scott King

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. - Samuel Butler quote

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. - Morgan Freeman quote

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. — Morgan Freeman

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. - William Blake quote

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. — William Blake

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward De Bono quote

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward De Bono

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. - Henri Poincare quote

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. - Claude McKay quote

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. — Claude McKay

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. - Walter Rauschenbusch quote

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. — Walter Rauschenbusch

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. - Michael Pollan quote

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. — Michael Pollan

In Conclusion

Such quotes often emphasize the universal nature of human emotions and struggles, emphasizing our capacity for love, forgiveness, and growth. They inspire us to connect with others on a deeper level, fostering a sense of unity and reminding us that we are all part of a larger human family. Through these quotes, we are encouraged to recognize the value and worth of every individual and to strive for a more inclusive and compassionate world.

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