Memorable Humanity Quotes

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"The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
"We must love one another or die."
W. H. Auden
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Vincent van Gogh
"Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me."
Terence
"The most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun."
Clifford Geertz
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our humanity is our burden, our life; we need not battle for it; we need only to be mindful of the possibility of humanity."
James Baldwin
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail Van Buren
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
Eleanor Powell
"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."
Albert Einstein
"The real bond of union in this nation is not identity of language, but that of love."
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
Voltaire
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Holderness is the gate to humanity."
John Mortimer
"We must remember that humanity is just an advanced breed of animal; and humans are still imbued with a primal instinct for survival."
Wayne Gerard Trotman
"I have great faith in humanity. I believe that we are going to make it."
Pete Seeger
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
Desmond Tutu
"We are all in this together, this is a shared planet."
Ban Ki-moon
"It's the simplest things in your life that help you connect with other people. The simple things that make you human."
Eddie Vedder
"Humanity is a plague on the earth."
Tom Clancy
"Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter."
Mark Twain
"We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
J.K. Rowling
"The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Humanity is not perfect. We aren't always what we should be. But I believe that, inherently, man is good."
James Nachtwey
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"What is important is to spread a sense of humanity among people."
The Dalai Lama
"Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate human being. That is all that matters."
The Dalai Lama
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Albert Einstein
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan
"Humanity's greatest achievements come from cooperation and communication."
Stephen Hawking
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."
G.K. Chesterton
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
John Holmes
"Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
Carl Sagan
"We have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Desmond Tutu
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
Jane Goodall
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."
Edmund Hillary
"I have great faith in humanity. I believe in the power of good that so many people carry with them."
Diana, Princess of Wales
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
Albert Schweitzer
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against."
Malcolm X
"There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life."
Sister Mary Rose McGeady
"We must remember that humanity is just a work in progress."
Hans Rosling
"The spirit of humanity is greater than any technology."
Dalai Lama
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Chuck Swindoll
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
Tom Robbins
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Our humanity is our burden, our life; we need not battle for it; we need only to be it."
James Baldwin
"May humanity rise above its present level, and may there be peace and understanding between all people."
Albert Einstein
"I have great faith in humanity. I believe that we are smart enough to find solutions to our problems."
Kofi Annan
"Humanity is not perfect, but our actions do make a difference."
Hillary Clinton
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has aspired to do."
Richard Dawkins
"We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it."
Thomas Aquinas
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
Leo Tolstoy
"Our future depends on how well we use science and technology to solve global challenges such as poverty, ignorance, disease, and environmental degradation."
Sigourney Weaver
"I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me."
Terence
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
William Shakespeare
"Humanity's greatest advances are not born from mindless following, but from inspired questioning."
Alain de Botton
"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
Jacques Cousteau
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."
Shannon L. Alder
"I believe in the future of mankind, in the reality of progress, that men are not merely born to consume themselves in daily routine, but to advance towards a higher goal."
Gustave Flaubert
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
Alexander the Great
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Thurgood Marshall
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