Human Family Quotes

#1. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

#2. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Julia Alvarez

#3. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.

Frederick Douglass

#4. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

Dalai Lama

#5. Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Ellen G. White

#6. This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

Brigham Young

#7. God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#8. Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Brigham Young

#9. The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence-and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

Van Jones

#10. Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

Ban Ki-moon

#11. Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

Philip Berrigan

#13. We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether ... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

Dalai Lama

#15. World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.

Ann Curry

#16. The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Rosika Schwimmer

#18. Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family ...

Frances Wright

#20. Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

Wilfrid Laurier

#21. Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself.

Matthew Kelly

#22. No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace Pilgrim

#23. When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

Paul Lutus

#24. Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

Duane Elgin

#25. Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

Dalai Lama

#26. My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

Pope John Paul II

#28. This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

Malcolm X

#29. We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.

Pope Francis

#30. I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

Sally Brampton

#31. My activism did not spring from being black ... The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Bayard Rustin

#32. Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.

Sam Brownback

#33. The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

Bayard Taylor

#34. One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Wole Soyinka

#35. Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

James K. Polk

#36. We must love all human beings, giving even our last drop of blood for all our siblings of this great human family.

Samael Aun Weor

#37. Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Pope Benedict XVI

#38. My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Toni Cade Bambara

#39. The world today is fast becoming one.Humanity is one, God is one and mankind are all part of one human family.
all Religions are connected, and they all lead to faith in the one God, no matter what name we give him he is but one God.

Naeem Abdullah

#40. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Dalai Lama

#41. The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

Mitch Albom

#42. Climate change is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Ban Ki-moon

#43. The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Thomas Keating

#44. Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Ronald Reagan

#45. Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

Jim Nollman

#46. We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

Dan O'Neill

#47. This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

Henry Hyde

#48. The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#49. Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

James C. Dobson

#50. You are my brother.
You are my sister.
We are one human family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.

John P. Schuster

#52. When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.

Doug Davidson

#53. The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

Adora Svitak

#54. We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

Samael Aun Weor

#55. A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Robert Jensen

#56. Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#57. We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

Forrest Church

#58. God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Knox

#59. My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

Angelique Kidjo

#60. Mankind is one human family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#62. The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

#63. After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. Our neighbors are not merely our associates and special friends; they are not simply those who belong to our church, or who think as we do. Our neighbors are the whole human family. We

Ellen G. White

#65. The end of war will come when we see that we already have enough, and we do not need to kill people who believe differently from us: we are all one human family.

Unknown

#66. Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. He

Mitch Albom

#67. In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

Pope Francis

#68. We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Hans Kung

#69. I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#70. Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?

Carl Sagan

#71. We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

Dalai Lama

#72. Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

Michael Jackson

#73. The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

Bryant McGill

#75. God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

Pope Pius XII

#76. Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

Henry Clay

#77. Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.

John Conyers

#78. I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Theodore Bikel

#79. I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

Robert Sirico

#80. Robot RHR14- "I have been with this human family through all their joys and tragedies, and if there was a tragedy in my existence, it was creating me in the first place. For they dared to give me the concept of Love and Compassion yet withheld my abilty to cry.

Jay B. Cox

#81. I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Mairead Corrigan

#82. A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

Jerry Bridges

#83. It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

Dalai Lama

#84. Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#85. As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

Pope Francis

#86. Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

Mahatma Gandhi

#87. The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

Abdu'l- Baha

#88. The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Khalil Gibran

#89. Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Victor Hugo

#90. The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

Ban Ki-moon

#91. It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

Henri Nouwen

#92. True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

Malcolm X

#93. In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.

John Howard Griffin

#94. Sometimes a decade arrives when nations have the chance to turn away from bigotry and selfishness and turn to their countrymen and women and embrace them as loved members of the human family. But do we have the ticker for it?

Bruce Pascoe

#95. His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast learners, the naturally inclined, or the morally gifted.

Terryl L. Givens

#96. Until we align our minds with our souls,
we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

#97. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#98. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka

#99. It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Angela Carter

#100. Stories
individual stories, family stories, national stories
are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Yann Martel