Quotes about Humanity
There is one great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
— William Wordsworth
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
— William Wordsworth
A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
— William Wordsworth
Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.
— William Wordsworth
The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.
— William Wordsworth
No other than the very heart of man, As found among the best of those who live-- Not unexalted by religious faith, Nor uninformed by books, good books, though few-- In Nature's presence: thence may I select Sorrow, that is not sorrow, but delight; And miserable love, that is not pain To hear of, for the glory that redounds Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
— William Wordsworth
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth
I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.
— William Wordsworth
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
— Winston Churchill
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
— Woodrow Wilson