Humanity Quotes
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
3756 William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
2038 Oscar Wilde
If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
2885 Nocturnus Libertus
Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable.
3015 Azhar Sabri
The true humanity is that, to do prayer for enemies too
4690 Rajendra Ojha
Every salute given to person after death is not for them; its just for the sake of humanity.
3705 Hillary Rodham Clinton
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
1988 Carl Sagan
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
3611 Dalai Lama XIV
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
1357 Johnny Depp
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
3797 E.M. Forster
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
4875 George Carlin
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
1726 Seán O'Casey
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
4037 Chad Sugg
If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.
2256 Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
3306 C. JoyBell C.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
1543 C. JoyBell C.
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!
2400 Chögyam Trungpa
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
3424 George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
2311 Dalai Lama XIV
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
3476 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Karl Lagerfeld
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
4655 Jess C. Scott
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
1481 Chögyam Trungpa
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
3613 Mahatma Gandhi
Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.
2454 P.G. Wodehouse
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
3797 Robert Bringhurst
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
1581 Brenda Ueland
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
3298 Don Roff
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
1532 Ursula K. Le Guin
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
1824 Akilnathan Logeswaran
The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.
3292 Daniel Nayeri
You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.
4499 LeeAnn Taylor
There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.
2295 Lolly Daskal
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
4868 Lolly Daskal
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
4699 Lolly Daskal
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
3932 Agnostic Zetetic
One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.
4128 John David Geib
How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of "God as Agape" is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.
2444 Zack Love
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.
3129 Enrico Fermi
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
1558 Thomas Carlyle
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
4484 Evan Meekins
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.
2292 Sayo Masuda
What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.
4618 Roger Zelazny
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
1903 Zack Love
Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.
2019 J. Cornell Michel
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
1530 Amit Kalantri
The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving.
1657 Rasheed Ogunlaru
The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free
4540 James Gavin
Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.
3194 LeeAnn Taylor
Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.
3543 Stanisław Lem
We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
1087 Leo Tolstoy
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
4297 C. JoyBell C.
It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.
3370 Irvine Welsh
This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.
2238 Jane Addams
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
1664 Lailah Gifty Akita
What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.
4790 Mouloud Benzadi
You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action,
But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction.
3842 Henry Johnson Jr
The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.
4426 David Livingstone Smith
Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren’t lying around waiting to be discovered. They’re made, not found.
1008 Nick Hornby
That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
3415 Alexander McCall Smith
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
4199 Shikamaru Nara
Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her
2184 Yvonne Pierre
Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.
2801 Sol Luckman
True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia - but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.
4003 Monkey D. Dragon
There are things that humans cannot stop a human's will, dream, and the change of an era. As long a humans long for freedom he surely cannot stop these things
2230 Luther Burbank
Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.
1163 Saleem Sharma
The truth about people is that there are more fakes than originals.
3306 Charles Bukowski
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
3991 Aniruddha Sastikar
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
1455 Isidor Isaac Rabi
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
1561 Russell Beland
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".
3098 Rick Yancey
Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.
4826 LeeAnn Taylor
Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.
3749 Carl Sagan
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
1782 Kurt Vonnegut
Q: What is wrong with the world?
A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.
3568 Haruki Murakami
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.
2517 Lionel Shriver
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.
3030 Peter F. Drucker
The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.
2732 Alice Neel
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
2823 Don DeLillo
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
2202 Dan McCurrigan
I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.
3387 Ashly Lorenzana
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
4764 Britt Skrabanek
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.
3149 Nick Hornby
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
1025 Louise Erdrich
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
2471 Tom Stoppard
We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
1046 Ralph Ellison
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
2634 C. JoyBell C.
I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.
1899 Bertolt Brecht
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
1940 Joseph Stalin
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
1571 Brad Meltzer
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
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