Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
To love for the sake of being loved is human but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
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.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Though every legal task demands this skill it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Human-rights advocates for example claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.