Quotes About Humanity

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

Love each other or die.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.

For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough.

The most remarkable part of all is your DNA. You have a metre of it packed into every cell, and so many cells that if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single fine strand it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto. Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.