Top 200 Quotes About Humanity (2025 Update)
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151. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”

— Mother Teresa

152. “This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.”

— Swami Vivekananda

153. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

— Terry Pratchett

154. “Humans see what they want to see.”

— Rick Riordan

155. “If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

156. “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”

— Hermann Hesse

157. “You don’t have to be afraid because we’re all the same.”

— Shawn Mendes

158. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

159. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

— Isabel Allende

160. “Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”

— Slavoj Žižek

161. “The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.”

— Terry Pratchett

162. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

— Maya Angelou

163. “I love humanity, it’s people I don’t like.”

— Charles M. Schulz

164. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

165. “They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

166. “The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

167. “Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”

— William Hazlitt

168. “Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

— Milan Kundera

169. “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

170. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

171. “You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.”

— Nelson Mandela

172. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.”

— Ronald J. Sider

173. “The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.”

— Ronald Reagan

174. “To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

175. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

176. “Humanity is just a virus with shoes.”

— Bill Hicks

177. “The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.”

— Vandana Shiva

178. “Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.”

— Elie Wiesel

179. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

180. “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

— Mark Twain

181. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

182. “I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

— Rudyard Kipling

183. “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

— Lee Iacocca

184. “We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

— William Ralph Inge

185. “Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

186. “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.”

— Leo Tolstoy

187. “Economics is on the side of humanity now.”

— Isaac Asimov

188. “Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”

— Jean Paul

189. “Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.”

— Eduardo Galeano

190. “If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Dale Carnegie

191. “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.”

— Bertolt Brecht

192. “People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...”

— Miyamoto Musashi

193. “The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.”

— J. Irwin Miller

194. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

195. “The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

196. “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

— Oscar Wilde

197. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

— Jackie Robinson

198. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

199. “A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.”

— David Icke

200. “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.”

— Elie Wiesel