Humanity Quotes

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

Carl Friedrich Bahrdt

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Charles Eisenstein

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.

The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become

Anonymous

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

Humanity is the Son of God.

Theodore Parker

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

The age of chivalry has gone the age of humanity has come.

I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.

Terence

Our true nationality is mankind.

H.G.Wells

Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Sir Francis Bacon

I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.

François Fénelon

Wen you see a man in woe Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do " "How's the world a-usin' you?"

Sam Walter Foss

He held his seat a friend to human race.

Homer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the context of the autism world (and my outlook in general) this is were I stand equality is for everyone, everybody in the world - I look at both sides of the the coin and take into account peoples realities (that makes me neutral/moderate/in the middle). That means that you look in a more three dimensional perspective of peoples diverse realities you cannot speak for all but one can learn from EACH OTHER through listening and experiencing. I also try my best to live with the good cards I was given not over-investing in my autism being the defining factor of my being (but having a healthy acknowledgement of it) that it's there but also thinking about other qualities I have such as being a writer, poet and artist.I do have disability, I do have autism and I have a "mild" learning disability that is true but I a human being first and foremost. And for someone to be seen as person equal to everyone else is a basic human right.

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau- and for what? It was the wantonness of it that stirred me.

H.G.Wells

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the meager contribution to the subject of IHL

Henrietta Newton Martin

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

May you have the courage to choose love over hate.

Leta B.

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

Leta B.

Until we align our minds with our souls,we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.

Leta B.

To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

Leta B.

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it.

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.

Leta B.

The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubts offenders deserve their rights to be protected but in cases of serious offenses such as ‘rape’ where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country, prefers to cross the precincts of the law. Worst still, is increasing crime rate of offenses such as rape committed against children and infants.

Henrietta Newton Martin

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance.

In serving the poor,one serves humanity.In serving mankind,one serves equity.In serving goodness,one serves God.In serving the Creator,one serves himself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Rise or fall, we will live on

Hiba Fatima Ahmad

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Émile Durkheim

I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.

Can you hear me? Sighing. You were right. My requiem is well prepared. Still to be written is the poem that is never complete, an endless rubbing on the ink block, an endless dipping of the pen, an endless swoop over the white paper, the poem of my life. I will try to write it down. Soon, no, now, I will try. The first line. I called him Necktie. I will write: He taught me to see with eyes of feeling.

Milena Michiko Flašar

We are medium-sized mammals who only prosper because we've developed a half-arsed ability to terraform the less suitable bits of the planet we evolved on, and we're conscious of our inevitable decay and death, and we can't live anywhere else. There is no invisible sky daddy to give us immortal life and a harp and wings when we die.

We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior are confined to us: there exists no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The unmistakable truth is that man is the most vicious and cruel species that ever walked the earth.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Voltaire

For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

One race,Many cultures,One place.

Geoffrey M. Gluckman

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Christopher Fowler

....because injustice promote brutal and brutality alike.

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

Roméo Dallaire

You will send me to the asylum for the truth,I know, I know!But before,Look within your skin,Hey, can you see me there?

He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was live. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes meet . . .

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.

Milena Michiko Flašar

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254

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