Humanity Quotes
4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors
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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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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish…
— Dalai Lama
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his…
— Muhammad Asad
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When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence…
— Ravi Zacharias
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None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that…
— Ravi Zacharias
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