50 Humanity Quotes That Will Inspire You to Make a Better World

1. "Violence diminishes our humanity." - Coretta Scott King

2. "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." - Desmond Tutu

3. "When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself." - Luigi Pirandello

4. "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken

5. "Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." - Pema Chodron

6. "You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything." - Alice Neel

7. "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall

8. "Our true nationality is mankind." - H. G. Wells

9. "There is nothing on earth divine except humanity." - Walter Savage Landor

10. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” - Mother Teresa

11. “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.” - Maya Angelou

12. "We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings." - Albert Einstein

13. "The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." - Leo Tolstoy

14. "Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!" - Fidel Castro

15. "Without humility there can be no humanity." - John Buchan

1. "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

2. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama

3. "Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble." - Yehuda Berg

4. "What 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 Addison

5. "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie

6. "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

7. "You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman." - Eldridge Cleaver

8. "One 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 Campbell

9. “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.

10. “The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.” - Jimmy Carter

11. "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character." - Robert Browning

12. "Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it." - Pope John Paul II

13. “Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.” - Hank Green

14. “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” - Gloria Steinem

15. “During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.” - Maya Angelou

16. “What 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.” - Voltaire

17. "We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings." - Rashida Tlaib

18. "When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity." -Elie Wiesel

19. "I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity." - Phil Robertson

20. "No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity." - Hugo Chavez

1. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

2. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

4. “If you want to do this, if you want to play big, if you want to really impact lives, you’ve got to face yourself. You’ve got to be courageous and willing to go all in and address everything about you that is uncomfortable.” - Harry Lopez

5. “I’m here to contribute. We all depend on each other. I depend on people in generations prior to me. People in generations after me will depend on me.” - Bryan Nwafor

6. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” - Woodrow Wilson

8. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.” - Immanuel Kant

9. "The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective." - Madonna Ciccone

10. "Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. "There is no higher religion than human service." - Albert Schweitzer

12. "If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent." - Warren Buffett

13. "Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity." - Pope John Paul II

14. "When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma." - Deepak Chopra

15. "If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?" - John Adams