Humanity Quotes

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings.

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice, and rancour.

After having lost their lives on this land they [enemy soldiers] have become our sons as well.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers - from tribes to cities to nations - to achieve things we couldn't on our own.

If people are asking the question - is the direction for humanity to come together more or not? I think that answer is clearly yes. But we have to build the infrastructure to make sure the global community works for everyone.

A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.