Humanity Quotes

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka, The Collected Aphor

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

George Bernard Shaw

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Aldous Huxley

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

Sir William Hamilton

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Edith Hamilton

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Thomas Carlyle

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. <br/>Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. <br/>Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. <br/>It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. <br/>Make a career of humanity.<br/>Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.<br/>You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino

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

Thurgood Marshall

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Albert Einstein, "The Saturday E

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Nathalie Sarraute