Quotes about Humanity

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.

of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it's running the

there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.