Quotes about Humanity

People before paper; stories before statistics.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street — and every one is signed by God's name And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion. id tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt; only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

The unselfish man, even though he finds himself involved in riches, stands aloof, in his mind, from the idea of "exclusive possession", and so escapes the bitterness and fear and anxiety which ever accompany the covetous spirit. He does not regard any of his outward accretions as being too valuable to lose, but he regards the virtue of unselfishness as being too valuable to the world - to suffering humanity - to lose or cast away.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.