Quotes About Humanity

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

No conditions justify torture.

I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.

In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

And you know, I've done a lot of research and I've been working on projects that embrace people who are tortured, or exploring what that is.

Everyone who tortured me and kidnapped me, who imprisoned me, I have forgiven everyone. And I wish them, from the bottom of my heart, the best of lives.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Si nuestras vidas son breves y carecen de dirección, al menos podemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestro coraje colectivo en nuestra lucha por comprender cosas mucho más grandes que nosotros.

We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.