Quotes about Humanity
There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.
— John Wooden
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
— Martin Luther
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
— Mark Twain
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
— Albert Schweitzer
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
— Desmond Tutu
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
— Dan Quayle
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
— Carl Sagan
Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
— Mark Twain