Quotes about Humanity
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
- Oscar Wilde
Are all men bad? Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.
- Oscar Wilde
Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
- Oscar Wilde
I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.
- Oscar Wilde
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
- Oscar Wilde
Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.
- Oscar Wilde
How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?
- Pablo Picasso
You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.
- Pam Grout
So let's obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us, How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere.
- Dale Carnegie
William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.
- Dale Carnegie
He saves us by realistic restoration of our heart to God and then by dwelling there with his Father through the distinctively divine Spirit. The heart thus renovated and inhabited is the only real hope of humanity on earth.
- Dallas Willard