Best 357 quotes in «humanitarian quotes» category

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Abandon all segregation, ye who read me.

Act beyond reward - think beyond dogmas - and feel beyond differences.

Action is life and non-action is death.

Agony can bring greatness out of a person, but in the process, the person has to walk barefoot on red-hot coal while bleeding from all over the being.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

All humans are given a guideline of individual freedom, and are conditioned to live within the guideline. And it is this sense of illusory obedience that defines the freedom of humans in a community, not the individual sense of responsibility. And that's where all the trouble begins. The world cannot be made humane and peaceful, unless the humans begin to redefine, recognize and realize their freedom based on their innate sense of responsibility towards their society, instead of being driven by obedience like racehorses.

All humans are images of your own self.

All women are my sisters and their problems are my problems.

A rich entrepreneur who lives a simple life with his family while helping as many people as he can, is more monk than a monk who lives a secluded life in a monastery meditating and begging.

As an author who writes motivated with elevated consciousness in humanitarian interests, I believe life application and guidance given should always start and finish with self.

A sister came to meet me the other day all the way from France, and the first thing she said was, "how can you even bear to live like this - working ceaselessly, with no one by your side to share your agony!" I looked up to her face with a gentle smile and said, "that's the price I chose to pay, my dearest, when I took up the responsibility to unify humanity." I am the thread that ties you all together - that's the purpose behind my existence, just like the sun's purpose is to give light and warmth. I exist to serve and I'll die serving. Fortunate are those who get destroyed in the service of others, for the highest use of life is to live for others.

A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a way that brings most human development. And that's the purpose atheism should have.

Bear every pain my friend - bear every agony, bear every torment, that the path of service has to offer, only then will destiny rise from the ashes of destitute and salute you with utmost veneration.

Become the bridge-builder, not the wall-raiser.

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.

Being articulate is not the same as being wise. Truth devoid of conscience, is worthless in human existence.

Be strong, but don't let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people's weaknesses.

Be the help to humanity, be the answer to humanity, be the light to humanity and be 911 to humanity.

Be the ocean of conscience in which others can bathe. Be the sacred river of service, that takes away selfishness from the society. Be the mountain of bravery that absorbs weakness from the heart of people. And you must do all this as a humble servant as well as a pride-less leader of the people.

Be the person who moves hearts - be the person who heals wounds - be the person who makes darkness disappear - be the person who makes colors reappear. Be the one who never sleeps, so that rest of humanity can.

Break yourself, if needed, for a greater purpose, and die like a legend, instead of crawling your whole life like a mind-less insect.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

Dame tu alma, te daré una humanidad unificada.

Destroy such shining altars that spread bigotry - demolish such glorious churches and temples that proclaim divine supremacy - burn such glistening crucifixes, scriptures and idols that are used to preach weakness and segregation - obliterate every single trace of orthodoxy from the face of this planet, not with violence, but with awareness - and work - work to uplift the downtrodden - work to elevate the impoverished - work to raise those abandoned by fortune and opportunity - only then you shall have the rightful place under the sun as a holy human being.

Differences are healthy, there lies the scope for inquiry, and in inquiry lies the scope for learning. Differences turn unhealthy only when we make them the cause for hatred.

Either burn me or burn with me.

El negro, el blanco, el marrón, el rojo, el amarillo, el hetero, el homo, el trans, el pobre, el rico, el analfabeto, el analfabeto, el débil, el fuerte, todos son mis hermanos y hermanas. Mi vida es su vida Y hasta el último aliento en mi cuerpo, los estaré sirviendo a todos con todo el poder en mis venas. Y más allá de la muerte, mis ideas te servirán por la eternidad.

Être homosexuel n’est pas plus anormal que d’être gaucher.

Être humain, c'est la bonne religion.

Every country is my country - every culture is my culture - every history is my history.

Everyone is mad for something, I am mad for everyone.

Fight, fight and fight – all they do is fight – they don’t care about harmony or world peace, all they care about is to prove that they are right and others are wrong – the scientists, the philosophers, the preachers, the spiritualists – every single one of them (excluding the exceptions) just want to triumph over the other – and that’s precisely what’s wrong with this world – they all want victory to be their exclusive possession and defeat to be the possession of the others. This way, no amount of riches will ever bring happiness and harmony in this world, because to have happiness and harmony, we all must act together to rise triumphant as one species, and not as individuals or tiny groups.

Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.

Forget sleep, forget thirst, forget hunger and just work - work my friend, work for humanity, work for our seven billion sisters, brothers and friends - work, so that our kind can witness the real dawn of civilization.

For the first time in human history, let’s rewrite the destiny of humanity with our own active conscience, instead of with loyalty towards a certain pompous ideology – let’s slogan for humanity’s interest, and not the interest of a certain ideology, institution, religion or political party – let’s give ourselves to the tireless service of our kind, trumping all toil, agonies and desperation.

For the first time in the history of life on earth, we the humans have developed the cognitive capacity to drive the process of our own biological evolution in a direction of our choosing at our own conscious will. So, choose wisely my sisters and brothers.

Fortunate are those who get destroyed in the service of others.

Freedom doesn't mean doing whatever you want - freedom means doing what brings warm, humane progress for the self as well as others.

From dust we are born, in dust we'll merge, but the journey in between must be made meaningful, not for ourselves mark you, but for the countless more humans to come.

From each drop of my blood, a thousand humanitarians will be born, to fortify the feeble, to unify the divided, to raise the abandoned and to invigorate the discriminated.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

Give me your prejudices - give me your biases - give me your hatred - give me your conditioned soul - and I will give you a unified and humane humanity.

God is not up there - God is right here - in you, in me, in each one of us. When those Gods wake up, stand up and start acting, all churches, temples, synagogues and mosques will wither away due to lack of visitors.

Go down the dusty and agonizing road of self-annihilation if necessary, so that you can save yourself as well as humanity from our primitive past.

Good is god and discrimination is demon.