Quotes about Humanity
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.
- Martin Luther King III
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
- Joseph Brodsky
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
- Francis Collins
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
- Walt Whitman
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
- Pope John Paul II
If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.
- Martin Luther King III
Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a powerhouse for good in a wicked world by reason of the grace of God that dwells in his soul.
- Mother Angelica
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
- Alice Walker