Quotes about Humanity
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
- Pope John Paul II
There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.
- Frank Peretti
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
- Pope John Paul II
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
- Victor Hugo
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
- Mahatma Gandhi
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
- Edith Stein
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
- Bede Griffiths