Humanity Quotes

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Greatness, Diversity

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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  When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Emotional, Remember You

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.161, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiring, God, Freedom

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Compassion, Empathy

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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  I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Equality, Race, People

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  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Faith, Confidence, Stupid

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• Man is an ape with possibilities.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Men, Apes, Possibility

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• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil, Behavior, Individual

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• A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

  Gerald Massey

  Baby, Sweet, Flower

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20

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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 of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

  William Allen White

  Men, Heartache, Joy

  William Allen White (1906). “In Our Town”

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• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Earth, Divine, Humans

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  Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Science, Technology

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• If there is to be peace in the world,
  There must be peace in the nations.
  If there is to be peace in the nations,
  There must be peace in the cities.
  If there is to be peace in the cities,
  There must be peace between neighbors.
  If there is to be peace between neighbors,
  There must be peace in the home.
  If there is to be peace in the home,
  There must be peace in the heart.

  Laozi

  Peace, Home, Heart

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• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Teacher, People, Justice

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• All we are saying is give peace a chance.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Light, Giving

  1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.

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• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  Oscar Wilde

  Able, Way, Humans

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.979, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Failure

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Tears, Reason

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