humanity Quotes

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:love humanity

“Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

topic:humanity value

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:humanity difference

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I would like to take this opportunity to explain the Zone of Ahimsa or peace sanctuary concept, which is the central element of the Five-Point Peace Plan. I am convinced that it is of great importance not only for Tibet, but for peace and...”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

topic:humanity peace

“Paper has more patience than people.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

topic:writing humanity patience

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:humanity suffering

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