Humanity Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own…

— George Bernard Shaw

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It…

— Albert Einstein

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

— Horace Walpole

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

— Suzanne Selfors

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

— Henry Rollins

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

— Ian Bogost

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

— H. P. Lovecraft