Quotes about Humanity
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- Herman Melville
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
- Martin Luther
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
- Elbert Hubbard
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
- Bill Bradley
It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.
- Albert Einstein
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
- Albert Einstein
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Jefferson
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- GK Chesterton
Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.
- Pope John Paul II