Top 200 Quotes About Humanity (2025 Update)
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51. “Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

— Terry Pratchett

52. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

53. “Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”

— Desmond Tutu

54. “Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

55. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

56. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

57. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

58. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

— Nelson Mandela

59. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

60. “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

— John Steinbeck

61. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

62. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

63. “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”

— Osho

64. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

— Swami Vivekananda

65. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

66. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

67. “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

68. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

69. “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

70. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

71. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

72. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

73. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

74. “We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.”

— Brené Brown

75. “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

— Douglas Adams

76. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

77. “All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”

— Swami Vivekananda

78. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

79. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— C.G. Jung

80. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. “The true beauty of music is that it connects people.”

— Roy Ayers

82. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

83. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

84. “Imagine all the people living life in peace...”

— John Lennon

85. “No moral value is greater than humanity.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

86. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

— Plato

87. “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

— Walt Whitman

88. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

89. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

90. “In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

91. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

92. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

93. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

94. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

95. “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

— Bertrand Russell

96. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

97. “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”

— Charlie Chaplin

98. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

— Philip Pullman

99. “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.”

— Barbara Mikulski

100. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

— John Bunyan