We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.”
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.