Humanity Quotes

"Be good to people for no reason" "An intelligent person aims at being kind and the ability to be kind is the highest of the arts and the most like the work of God" "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end" "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular." "Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action." "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong" "To weep is to risk appearing sentimental" "We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race" "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." "Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us." "Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime" "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all" "A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears." "What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other" "Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some previously unrecognized frontier, we become more completely human" "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love" "Books break the shackles of time proof that humans can work magic" "We are all framed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly that is the first law of nature" "You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them"