Humanity

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

— Unknown Source

The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence.

— Unknown Source

My humanity is tied to your humanity.

— African Proverb

If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself.

— Mayan philosophy

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

— George Gamow, Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1904-1968

The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

— Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian diplomat, Nobel laureate, Born 1942

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

— John Brunner, British write of science fiction novels, 1934-1995

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.

— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

I feel we are all islands — in a common sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001

I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

— Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

— Martin Luther, German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546

People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch thingshappen, and those who wonder what happened.

— Unknown source

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.

— Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 1876-1967

Science 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 Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

— Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE

I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me.

— Terence, Roman playwright, of Berber descent, 195-159 B.C.E

Our true nationality is mankind.

— H.G. Wells, English writer in many genres, but is now best remembered as a â€œfather of science fiction,â€ 1866-1946

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

— Juvenal, Roman poet active in the late first and early second century A.D.