Quotes about Humanity

I was born in 1920, during the influenza pandemic, and I'm going to die in 2020, during the outbreak of coronavirus. What an elegant name for such a terrible scourge.

But do you know what I'm most grateful for? Love. That has marked me more than anything else. I was incredibly lucky to have Roser. She'll always be the love of my life. Thanks to her I have Marcel. Being a father has also been essential for me; it's allowed me to keep faith in what's best in the human condition.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.