W. H. Auden Quotes

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

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.

Love each other or die.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

Love each other or perish.

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

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

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

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

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

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.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

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

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

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.

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

We all need each other.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.