Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Humanity

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson – the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
James A. Michener (1907–97) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Historian

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

The traveler’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 (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885–1950) American Critic, Historian

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts (1915–73) British-American Philosopher, Author

The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is Brotherhood.
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American Poet, Lecturer

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch (1919–99) British Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist

I’m quite sure that … I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me he can’t be any worse.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work—a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
Marie Curie (1867–1934) Polish-born French Physicist, Chemist

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya Stark (1893–1993) British Explorer, Writer

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings (1894–1962) American Poet, Writer, Painter

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

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