Quotes about Humanity
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
- Deepak Chopra
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
- Deepak Chopra
Even saints die," I said quietly, "and they don't all pass away kneeling in prayer.
- Deepak Chopra
Laughter is humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
- Deepak Chopra
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
- Denzel Washington
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- George Bernard Shaw
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
- Francis Schaeffer
This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
- Barack Obama
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
- Mark Twain
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
- Henri Nouwen
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
- Pope John Paul II