Humanity Quotes

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.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.