Humanity

"I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them."

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members."

"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good."

"Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. They are human beings."

"No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no religion is more important than the human being."

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

"The question is not, can they reason? nor can they talk? but, can they suffer?"

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners—time to restore to them their lost dignity—and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

"Man is a child of his environment."

"The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world."

"We are all creatures of the stars."

"I can't imagine a writer who hasn't spent a lot of time talking to people."

"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us."

"Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress."

"The world is small and our hearts are large."

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that."

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

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."