“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”

“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”

“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”

“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.”

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

“There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.”

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”