Quotes about Humanity
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost
If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability in some way such that this incommensurability is not evil then no categories are needed other than what Greek philosophy had... and what their wisdom amounts to is the beautiful proposition that basically everything is the same.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
- Elie Wiesel
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
- CS Lewis
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
- Desmond Tutu
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
- Frederick Buechner
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- Desmond Tutu
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
- Samuel Johnson