Top 58 Quotes About Our Common Humanity
#1. And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
#2. 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.
Jean Vanier
#3. However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.
Alison Assiter
#4. With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.
Liza M. Wiemer
#6. Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.
Lawrence H. Keeley
#7. Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.
Linda Simon
#8. We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.
Nelson Mandela
#9. Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#10. Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
Cat Stevens
#11. The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#12. Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity
Chris Hedges
#13. We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.
Naveen Andrews
#14. True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
Ban Ki-moon
#15. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
Robert Penn Warren
#16. We're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite.
Greg Mortenson
#17. Our common humanity can bridge any prior expanse of disagreement between us.
Carmine Savastano
#18. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill Clinton
#19. The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Jimmy Carter
#20. Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
Mairead Corrigan
#21. If national interest comes before our common humanity," Dalia said, "then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything!" One
Sandy Tolan
#22. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
Leo Buscaglia
#23. We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
Nelson Mandela
#24. Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
Mark Heard
#25. Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Hillary Clinton
#26. We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself ...
Barack Obama
#27. The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.
William J. Clinton
#28. Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.
Margaret H. Marshall
#29. We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.
Desmond Tutu
#30. Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
Ted Turner
#31. Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Walter Dean Myers
#32. My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Aaron Koblin
#33. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
Salman Rushdie
#34. our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#35. That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity - when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other - it is then that we also recognize the face of God.
Diana Butler Bass
#36. ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.
Jonathan Sacks
#37. When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#38. Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
Daisaku Ikeda
#39. I am big believer in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.
J. Michael Straczynski
#40. We all are unique, but we are also part of the humanity, which is our common body. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together with joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#41. There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
Barack Obama
#43. Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
#44. That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things ...
Rob Bell
#45. Let him who elevates himself above humanity ... say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
Henry Clay
#46. Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.
Robert A. Burton
#47. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
#48. I want to explore humanity and human kind. I think that what's common for all of the things that I've done and all the things that I want to do is that they are all connected to some deeper things in our souls.
Noomi Rapace
#49. I do not agree that ethics requires grounding in religious concepts or faith. Instead, I firmly believe that ethics can also emerge simply as a natural and rational response to our very humanity and our common human condition.
Dalai Lama XIV
#50. The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
Bhagat Puran Singh
#51. If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
Pope John Paul II
#52. It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. There is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different in all those things which pertain to our every day life ...
Violette Nakhjavani
#54. Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates
#56. All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
Isaac Asimov
#57. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?
Carolyn Jourdan
#58. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros
