The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George OrwellEarth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.
Mahatma GandhiOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert EinsteinTeach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
BuddhaIf people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinHe who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath TagoreIn the arena of human life. the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
AristotleThe high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert EinsteinNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnAs I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnMen are cruel, but Man is kind.
Rabindranath TagoreYou 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 GandhiAll virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
AristotleOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert EinsteinWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LucretiusHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.
AristotleWhoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred
BuddhaI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnEvery human being is the author of his own health or disease.
BuddhaThe mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.
Sai BabaNo pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen KellerWhy do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki MurakamiI can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
Mother TeresaHumanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac AsimovThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyUntil the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - everywhere is war!
Bob MarleyI long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya AngelouI speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert EinsteinEverything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark TwainLord, what fools these mortals be!
William ShakespearePoliteness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph JoubertService to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad AliWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William ShakespeareIf humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster FullerIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Mark TwainEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark TwainThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonJust as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
BuddhaEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WellsMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonReason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton ChekhovWhat is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error, let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
VoltaireMy atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George SantayanaThe honorary duty of a human being is to love.
Maya AngelouThere are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark TwainIt has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert EinsteinBefore God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinThe unfortunate need people who will be kind to them, the prosperous need people to be kind to.
AristotleWar is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul IIThe great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert LawrenceWithout contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.
William BlakeHumans are basically good, but easily corrupted by poor leadership.
ConfuciusI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinA robot may not injure humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm. [The Zeroth Law of Robotics]
Isaac AsimovHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster FullerFollow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
BuddhaEducation is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John RuskinThe human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. TrumanAs human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond TutuThe human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da VinciThe world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeEvery human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen HayesIt's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WilsonWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranHuman nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane AustenTravel teaches toleration.
Benjamin DisraeliGiving the best to others is giving the best to ourselves. The value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we can contribute to others in our society.
BuddhaIn all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouHell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor HugoThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeWhat is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
Sai BabaWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre MauroisMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusProgress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus GarveyFrom now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul IIThe man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own, or has refused to face them.
Henry MillerNever stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham LincolnIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MenckenHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsOur progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyI regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar WildeThe human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark TwainAmazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason CooleyIf men were angels no government would be necessary.
James MadisonBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusWhile I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Maya AngelouHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da VinciMan was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh BillingsCompassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. HumphreyMan's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiNot without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Friedrich SchillerAll who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
AristotleYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil GibranWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiAt his best man is the noblest of all animals, separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinEverywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness, on the confines of the two everlasting empires necessity and free will.
Thomas CarlyleHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is but always to be blest.
Alexander PopeThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George EliotMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiThe eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil GibranThe four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. ForsterThe Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliMan, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John SteinbeckThere is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John KeatsMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century, than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves CousteauOur humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret MeadWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph AddisonHumans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. LewisThere is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen KellerAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinIt may be, it just may be, that life as we know it, with its humanity, is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. JohnsonHumanity either makes or breeds or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur WardIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
ConfuciusOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsMan is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
AristotleI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnThe man of wisdom has no perplexity, the man of humanity has no worry, the man of courage has no fear.
ConfuciusUntil the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen KellerHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinSafeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil GibranFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliDeny the passport, throw it away and make a great decision that you will not leave this shore until and unless you have liberated all the human beings.
BuddhaHumans are not proud of their ancestors and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas AdamsBeware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore RooseveltI cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de TocquevilleBe nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond TutuWithout lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole FranceIt is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor HugoI speak to the black experience but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
Maya AngelouIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund BurkeI find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Doug CouplandAll of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak ChopraOnly selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity.
Sai BabaFor it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. MenckenLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainOur most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyHuman beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill CosbyScience may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerWe cannot despair of humanity since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert EinsteinEverything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo CoelhoHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, and art would be useless.
Honore de BalzacNo civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Rabindranath TagoreNone of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother TeresaHumanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean PaulAnd it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
AristotleSavages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin FranklinAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth, next to humans.
E. O. WilsonAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacIs the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph CampbellMan, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all.
AristotleTo be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark TwainWhy was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar WildeHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinTruly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad AliGenius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William HazlittSelfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
Sai BabaPart of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac AsimovOne way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph CampbellAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark TwainOur humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis BaconPeople say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny DeppThe human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
Mark TwainSecular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. WilsonBut who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark TwainTo the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt WhitmanIf we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother TeresaFor where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin LutherThe essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. WilsonAll human history attests, That happiness for man - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner.
Lord ByronSince I move about with you, eat like you and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But any movement My Divinity may be revealed to you, you have to be ready prepared for that moment.
Sai BabaWe allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya AngelouWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James MadisonI went straight from shenanigans to cries against humanity.
George CarlinWe shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert EinsteinAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoHuman beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert EinsteinWhy should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho MarxNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity, or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil GibranAll that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert EinsteinI do not believe in immortality of the individual and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert EinsteinWhen will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery, rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltThe human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.
Mahatma GandhiI want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother TeresaGovernment of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham LincolnMorality is of the highest importance - but for us not for God.
Albert EinsteinYou have a nice personality but not for a human being.
Henny YoungmanAmerica and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead they overlap and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack ObamaA perfection of means and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem.
Albert EinsteinMan is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar WildeIt could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class, except Congress.
Mark TwainA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteSuch is the human race often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark TwainLet's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LewisThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai BabaIn matters of truth and justice there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert EinsteinI cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert EinsteinA belief in hell, and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton, have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley