Quotes about Humanity

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

We are here for the sake of others