Humanity Quotes

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

- Stephen Hawking

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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There are two ways of living: a man may be casual and simply exist, or constructively and deliberately try to do so. The constructive idea implies a constructiveness not only about one's own life, but about that of society, and the future possibilities of mankind.

- Sir Julian Huxley

A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. [From: An Ethical Philosophy of Life]

- Felix Adler

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

- Duane Elgin

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

- Henry Ward Beecher

First, we are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All human eyes have longing in them.

- Ernesto Cardenal

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

- Anne Sullivan

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

- Theodor Adorno

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

- Walt Whitman

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

- Don Marquis

Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time.

Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued.

Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.

- Marshall Rosenberg

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

- Martha Nussbaum

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

- Peace Pilgrim

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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

(sometimes paraphrased as "We have enough resources to provide for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed.")

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

- Vincent van Gogh

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

- Rowan D. Williams

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi