#humanity

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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

His victory is not a cause for rejoicing. To rejoice in a conquest is to rejoice in the slaughter of men.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman—a rope over an abyss.

The greatest danger to mankind is not nature, but man himself, because we are the origin of all coming evil.

The best and most delightful thing for a man is to live in accordance with reason, for reason more than anything else is man.

Without virtue, man is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

There are two races of men in this world, but only these two: the 'race' of the decent man and the 'race' of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere.

No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of 'pure race.'

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.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being, that moment I am free.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

You are the world, and the world is you.

I am large, I contain multitudes.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Humanity is a growing conscious vessel of the Infinite.

A man without education is like an animal.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

There is no history; only biography.

Great men exist that there may be greater men.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.