Humanity Quotes

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Learn to love the fool in you, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

It alone protects you against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom you also harbor and who would rob you of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for your fool.

Celebrities should pick what they are passionate about and support those causes.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Anger gives us the strength to do great or terrible things, but takes away from us our Humanity.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.