Alan Paton Quotes

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.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

Stop fighting. Everyone's a person too. And take care of the Earth, please.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

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

Mama, humanity is my business.

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.