Humanity Quotes

"It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity"

"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity"."

"The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials"

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."

"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."

"It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."

"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

"a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people."

"The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self."

"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."

"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."

"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds."

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings."