Humanity
"The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second is to resist it." --Kenneth Graham
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy
"All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think." --Thomas J. Watson
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time..." --Charles Bukowski
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as if a promontory were, as if a manor of the friends or of thine own were; any man’’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." --John Donne, Meditation XVII
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself, What isn’t’’t a part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us." --Herman Hesse
"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one." --Mother Teresa
"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."--Froude
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exits elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."--Calvin in Bill Watterson’’s comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Half of the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important." -- T.S. Eliot
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." --Jane Austen
"The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment." --Ruth Brown
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." --Einstein
"It says something about our times that we rarely use the word sinful, except to describe a really good dessert." --Willard D. Ferrell
"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." --Will Durant
"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities." --Linda Ellerbee
"The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart." -- Dennis Miller
"People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick." --Phyllis McGinley
"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges" --Joseph Newton
"The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important." --John Dewey
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."-- Mark Twain
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.
"The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history." -- Ray Bradbury
"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool." -- Bellamy Brooks
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." -- John Andrew Holmes
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." -- Olin Miller
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." --Albert Schweitzer
"Humanity needs to listen, until such a time as the voice of the soul is heard throughout the universe as the only voice of compassion and reason that has ever existed. When this occurs, all of humanity will be truly free and the voice of the Soul will sing the end of time." --Fred Wolf, Physicist/author
"What we are, is what we have thought for years." --Buddha
"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?" --C. S. Lewis
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge." --Plato
"Everybody is a moon, and he has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -- Mark Twain
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." --Katherine Hepburn
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision." -Helen Keller
"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." --Joseph Fort Newton
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