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Humanity Quotes - Page 14

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.562

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

"Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers" by Ian Mcewan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

"Anger amid the tears - did the allies do enough to save Jews?" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.132, University of Missouri Press