Quotes About Humanity

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

Everything important in our world requires the efforts of large numbers of individuals. Indeed, to overcome our planet's most pressing problems, we are required to think not as individuals, not even as nations, but as a single humanity.

Humans create so much beauty.

In war, there are no winners.

There is far more to us than what we live.

Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)

I'm sorry for what happened to your family and your people, but why must we be punished?

I'm sixty-seven years old. And, dear, in my sixty-seven years I've never let politics tell me how to treat people.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.

Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.

While there were those like Thomas Paine who found the whole business of the slave trade abhorrent, they were far outnumbered by slaveholders who, among other things, forced female slaves into sexual service.

Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart.

People don't have to be perfect for you to love them," he said. "You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes you love them because they aren't perfect. You love them for their imperfections . . .

The avidity with which we thieve and kill and ruin one another! The flesh is undeserving of the souls with

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

Find the best in everybody... you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. (p. 22)

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.

When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

Almost everybody has a good side.

People are more important than things. A car, even a pristine gem like my new convertible, was just a thing.