Pitirim A. Sorokin Quotes

The religion of humanity is love.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

This country will never sacrifice humanity in order to carry out any policy.

Education must establish the moral unity of mankind.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

… we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.