Luther Burbank Quotes

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

We must love one another or die

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

Love each other or die.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we're all the exact same: We just want connection. We just want love.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

I love all people, whatever race they are.