Humanity Quotes

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.

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.