Quotes about Humanity
Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering
— LM Montgomery
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
— William Wordsworth
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
Man's Place in Nature.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
— Thomas Paine
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
— George Eliot
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
— Elie Wiesel
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
— Mother Teresa
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
— Jimmy Carter
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
— Desmond Tutu