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"Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."
"Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet."
"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
"Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots."
"I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit."
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God"
"We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal."
"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."
"We are all capable of much more than we think we are."
"The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator."
"Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change."
"The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself."
"We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them."
"Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope."
"You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion."
"The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves."
"It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred."
"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell."
"Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution."
