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Humanity Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to…
- Animal protection is education to the humanity.
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
- Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
- What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
- In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an…
- We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly…
- Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a…
- The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
- Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is…
- The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil,…
- We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
More Humanity Quotes
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater