Quotes about Humanity
Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
- Moby
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
- Francis Collins
Man's Place in Nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
- Thomas Paine
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
- George Eliot
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
- Elie Wiesel
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
- Jimmy Carter
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
- James H. Cone
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
- Desmond Tutu
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
- Walt Whitman
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel