Quotes about Humanity

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.