Top 200 Quotes About Humanity (2025 Update)

1. “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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2. “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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3. “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Humanism Quotes

4. “Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.”

— Nelson Mandela

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5. “I Have a Dream”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.

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7. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu

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8. “Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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9. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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10. “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

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11. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

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12. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

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13. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

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14. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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15. “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

— Nelson Mandela

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16. “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

— Thomas Paine

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17. “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Helping Quotes

18. “Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.”

— Osho

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19. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

— Fred Rogers

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20. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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21. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

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22. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

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23. “In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Quotes

24. “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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25. “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

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26. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

— Maya Angelou

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27. “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

— Nelson Mandela

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28. “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

— Mother Teresa

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29. “Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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30. “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”

— Pope Francis

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31. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

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32. “In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.”

— Elie Wiesel

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33. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Quotes About People

35. “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

— Howard Zinn

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36. “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Lonely Quotes

37. “It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.”

— George Orwell

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38. “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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39. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

— J.K. Rowling

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40. “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

— Mother Teresa

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41. “We are more alike than unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

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42. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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43. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

— John F. Kennedy

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44. “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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45. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”

— Elie Wiesel

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46. “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

— E. O. Wilson

47. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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48. “We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”

— Desmond Tutu

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49. “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Justice Quotes

50. “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel