Humaneness Quotes

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
― Roman Payne

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized way all the grief of an invalid who thinks of health, of an old man who thinks of the dream of his youth, of a lover deprived of his beloved, of the martyr whose ideal is perishing, of the hero on the evening after a battle that has decided nothing but brought him wounds and the loss of his friend. But if one endured, if one could endure this immense sum of grief of all kinds while yet being the hero who, as the second day of battle breaks, welcomes the dawn and his fortune, being a person whose horizon encompasses thousands of years, past and future, being the heir of all the nobility of all past spirit - an heir with a sense of obligation, the most aristocratic of old nobles and at the same time the first of a new nobility - the like of which no age has yet seen or dreamed of; if one could burden one’s soul with all of this - the oldest, the newest, losses, hopes, conquests, and the victories of humanity; if one could finally contain all this in one soul and crowd it into a single feeling - this would surely have to result in a happiness that humanity has not known so far: the happiness of a god full of power and love, full of tears and laughter, a happiness that, like the sun in the evening, continually bestows its inexhaustible riches, pouring them into the sea, feeling richest, as the sun does, only when even the poorest fishermen is still rowing with golden oars! This godlike feeling would then be called - humaneness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark of divinity which we call Myself; when clodhoppers and peasants, and tramps and thieves, and millionaires and -- sometimes -- Negroes, became throbbing souls whose warm pulsing life touched us so nearly that we half gasped with surprise, crying, "Thou too! Hast Thou seen Sorrow and the dull waters of Hopelessness? Hast Thou known Life?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“When you want to help people, you don’t need no language – it’ll all be written on your face.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze

“..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.”
― Ali Smith, Spring

“The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“You are respected till you have something needed by them or something they are jealous of...”
― Ranu Das

“Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures.”
― Psalm 145 9

“As God is merciful, so you also be merciful. As he loves and cares for all His creatures and His children and are related to Him, because He is their Father, so you also love all His creatures as your brethren. Let their joys be your joys, and their sorrows yours. Love them and with every power which God gives you, work for their welfare and benefit, because they are the children of your God, because they are your brothers and sisters.”
― Pirkei Avot

“Do we know it, friends, or do we not know it?
Both the knowledge and the doubt are fashioned
By the lingering hour into the human countenance.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.”
― Anthony Pan

“I send this message to humankind to accentuate on the goodness of all living beings WHO form an important part of humanity.--

Thank you for thinking of me, dear friend. For being concerned about my personal welfare the same way I feel about yours.

Thank you for the smile of friendship you always sent my way, the wind has blown it to my direction.

The world may proclaim your greatness, but it is your inner character dear great HUMANKIND that touched my soul for we are partners in making this universe a better place to live in.”
― Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao

“It's not the most advanced society we should be aiming to build that only cares for efficiency, rather our aim should be to build a healthy society with the right amount of advancement and a whole lot of humaneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, See No Gender

“Wake up your conscience and hold it high as a beacon, so that the whole world can bask in its sanctimonious kernel of humaneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“No society is born humane, it must be made humane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Humaneness that bends during murky times is no humaneness. Real humaneness stays awake at all times, in all situations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“Lantern in hand;
seeking humans
in bright darkness...”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia

“You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. And I'm not so sure about it being noble-not if it's idiotic at the same time.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“A man is not a man because he is a man; a man is a man because he is responsible and humane towards other fellow humans and humanity as a whole.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Για όλους όσους έχουν βιώσει - με όποιον τρόπο - τον εκφοβισμό στη ζωή τους, ακόμα και από τους πιο κοντινούς συγγενείς τους (ενδοοικογενειακός εκφοβισμός) ή το ευρύτερο περιβάλλον τους - σχολικό, επαγγελματικό, κοινωνικό, και όποιου είδους ήταν αυτός, ψυχολογικός, λεκτικός, σωματικός... - κι έχουν χάσει πλέον κάθε ελπίδα...
Θάρρος! Πάντα υπάρχει ελπίδα, μια αχτίδα φωτός να σκορπίσει τα σκοτάδια!”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia, Ο Ταύρος έγινε... Αρνάκι! The Bull became a... Lamb!