Humanity Quotes

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, hasbarricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....For Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.