Top Common Humanity Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Common Humanity quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Robert Penn Warren
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
- Robert Penn Warren
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Image of William Boyd
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.
- William Boyd
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Image of Mairead Corrigan
Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
- Mairead Corrigan
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Image of Sara Maitland
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
- Sara Maitland
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Image of Jimmy Carter
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
- Jimmy Carter
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Image of Oscar Arias
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering
- Oscar Arias
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Image of Mark Heard
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
- Mark Heard
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Image of Nancy Astor
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
- Nancy Astor
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Image of Linda Simon
Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.
- Linda Simon
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Image of Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Image of Barack Obama
The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Common Humanity
Image of Leo Buscaglia
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
- Leo Buscaglia
Collection: Common Humanity
Image of William J. Clinton
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.
- William J. Clinton
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We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
- William J. Clinton
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Image of William J. Clinton
We all do better when we work together.
- William J. Clinton
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Image of Daisaku Ikeda
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Image of Nelson Mandela
It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Nelson Mandela
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
- Nelson Mandela
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