Fellow Beings Quotes

#1. To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

Meher Baba

#2. The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

William Hazlitt

#3. It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Mohsin Hamid

#4. A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

Robert Spencer

#5. When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together.

Thomas Huynh

#6. To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

Sean Faircloth

#7. Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Desmond Tutu

#8. If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

Azim Premji

#10. In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Joe Strummer

#12. I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Dalai Lama

#13. I like to work on New Year's Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the 'year-end' thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year.

Paula Poundstone

#14. To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

Morihei Ueshiba

#15. Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Henri Nouwen

#16. Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

Osamu Dazai

#17. The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

Donella Meadows

#18. Begin by asking yourself, What message is the universe giving me? What can I learn from this experience, and how can I make it useful to my fellow human beings?

Deepak Chopra

#19. Inviting fellow human beings to experience beauty teases their souls and allows them, albeit briefly, to see a picture of how things ought to be.

Gabe Lyons

#20. The artist ... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

Eric Maisel

#21. Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Luke Davies

#22. Newton was not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings.

Leonard Mlodinow

#23. Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.

Malala Yousafzai

#24. Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences - you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.

Charles Murray

#25. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

#26. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

J.M. Coetzee

#27. You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive

Abraham Verghese

#28. Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

Jim Ryun

#29. I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

John Perry Barlow

#30. Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

Meir Soloveichik

#31. Laugh ... It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Maya Angelou

#32. Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

Agnivesh

#33. History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of horrendous things. This should humble us, for "there but for the grace of God, go I.

John Fea

#34. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

Corrie Ten Boom

#36. Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Henri Nouwen

#37. Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

#38. We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Lucy Larcom

#39. God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by
by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Abraham Verghese

#40. In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Thurgood Marshall

#41. A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his lord, a filial duty to his parents, a duty to help his friends, and a duty of common humanity towards his fellow beings.

Lao-Tzu

#42. Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

Lewis B. Smedes

#43. What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Olin Miller

#44. Killing is not so easy as it seems. Most people are wired to be careful of their fellow human beings. Soldiers and cops both are specifically given training to overcome that instinct, and the criminals who fire at other people are usually driven to it by desperation. And

Jim Butcher

#45. The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

Jacob Schiff

#46. One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#47. The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Charles William Eliot

#48. The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.

George W. Bush

#49. The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.

Adam Hamilton

#50. I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.

Jack Higgins

#51. I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

Peter Hedges

#52. Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Marjo-Riikka Makela

#53. It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Raul Julia

#54. If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

#55. When ... we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Aristotle.

#56. At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Robert Walser

#57. I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Steve Vai

#58. After all," she said, "many people here have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different than them - so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

Cornelia Funke

#59. Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.

Pema Chodron

#60. The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!

C.F.W. Walther

#61. It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings. (p. 16-17)

Rollo May

#62. There's no doubt about it, being a policeman warps a man's mind and ruins that sunny faith in his fellow human beings which is the foundation of a lovable character. There seems to be no way of avoiding this.

P.G. Wodehouse

#63. I have seldom found a lot to love about my fellow human beings, even when I liked them;

Gene Wolfe

#64. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Robert Kennedy

#65. One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

Ezra Taft Benson

#66. The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

Swami Vivekananda

#67. As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

Dalai Lama

#68. I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Ilchi Lee

#69. In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic, life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings, and with increasing prayer to our God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#70. What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Idries Shah

#71. Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Bill Gates

#72. We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

Swami Vivekananda

#73. Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Amit Ray

#74. I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#75. You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings

George MacDonald

#76. Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

James Howard Kunstler

#77. Man becomes a man only when he stops bossing around both his own fellow man and other living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.

Edward Burtynsky

#79. God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.

Amit Ray

#80. But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#81. When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

Graham Nash

#82. In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

James Cash Penney

#83. Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Denis Diderot

#84. Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#85. I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

Fauja Singh

#86. You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people ... that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

Keith Haring

#87. If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.

Dalai Lama

#88. It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

Ray Comfort

#89. America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

Edward Abbey

#90. Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#91. We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Dalai Lama

#92. The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

Kofi Annan

#93. Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Todd Strasser

#94. You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Elizabeth Aston

#95. I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Gustave Flaubert

#96. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

Dat Phan

#97. The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Vironika Tugaleva

#98. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!

Charles Dickens

#99. The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an ... evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

Jeremy Rifkin

#100. On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

Dalai Lama