Quotes About Humanity

The ability to compare, and to evaluate, other human beings was the fountainhead of human unhappiness...

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Kant picked up on Rousseau's idea of perfectibility, and turned it into the core of his moral philosophy. At the beginning of the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, he says that the only thing that is unconditionally good is a good will, and that the capacity to make moral choices is what makes us distinctively human. Human beings are ends in themselves and should never be treated as a means to other ends.

The Buddha is found in other people – even the ones we do not like very much.

We have moral responsibilities to other people in our community because they are people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or lot in life. According to the Christian and Jewish view of humanity, all people have inherent dignity because they are made in the image of God. And thus we should show respect to and concern for those of both genders and all races and nationalities.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Man is the future of man.

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility.

We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't the kind of thing you can know. It isn't a knowable item.) But then, like every human being, I am not in the habit of entertaining only the emotions I can prove. I'd be a unrecognizable oddity if I did.

For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.

Poate c? omul este r?u din fire È™i genele sale, cu trecerea secolelor, s-au modificat în ceva È™i mai r?u...

Quién los jueces con pasión, sin ser ungüento hace humanos, pues untándoles las manos les ablanda el corazón?

La guerra es de por vida en los hombres, porque es guerra la vida, y vivir y militar es una misma cosa

Los dioses del hombre jamás han tenido otra cara que la del hombre mismo [...] si mi dios no existe ¿quién soy yo?

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

to laugh is proper to the man.