Quotes about Humanity

Typically, preachers in our work-oriented society teach that God rested to provide humanity with a precedent for rest, an example for our good. Seldom have I heard mention of the other meaning for rest, the one used in musical notation. This meaning refers to cessation rather than recovery from weariness. Our enjoyment of music owes much to these brief pauses.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.