Humanity Quotes
4081 quotes by 2171 authors
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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
— C.S. Lewis
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
— John Stuart Mill
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The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
— Brian Tracy
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we…
— Thomas Merton
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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To be human means to feel inferior.
— Alfred Adler
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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To eat is human, to digest, divine
— Mark Twain
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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
— Paul Strand
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as…
— William Shakespeare
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and…
— William Allen White
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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
— Maya Angelou
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Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.
— Pema Chodron
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