Quotes About Humanity

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Humanity is a deceptive noun that suggests our best qualities as a species, though it often masks prejudice and inequity.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?

We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans . Noisemaking man.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A wretched coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress

David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman. Oxford University Press: USA, 2005

God sees into my innermost heart and knows that as a man I perform most conscientiously and on all occasions the duties which Humanity, God and Nature enjoin upon me Ã¢â'¬Â¦

human nature in general is revealed to each person through his own nature in particular.

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,Held his heart in his hands,And ate of it.I said, "Is it good, friend?""It is bitter—bitter," he answered;"But I like it"Because it is bitter,"And because it is my heart."

He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to imagine a peopled earth. One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smitten, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb. The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One was a coxcomb not to die in it.