Quotes on “humanity”

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.