Quotes About Humanity

This was exactly what many of us thought Twitter had encouraged in its early years, back when "offensive" tweets didn't yet somehow define the entire humanity of an individual and land him in jail with a lifetime sentence.

Animals need as much love and respect and care as we give people. I consider this. I think about all the things I've seen and done, and I consider this. I think they're better off without that, baby, I say. In fact I think they're doing okay.

The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.

To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighbor means recognizing that there are ultimately no strangers. . . . Everybody is my neighbor! . . . Everybody is my brother! . . . There are no isolated monads wounded on the other side of the street! . . . We're all connected.

Jesus faithfully and courageously represented the nonviolent and loving heart of God. Jesus and his way of nonviolent, self-giving love, the text suggests, will earn the trust of all humanity. We will ultimately migrate, in other words, toward the way of Jesus.

God is not the tribal deity of one group of "chosen" people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions.

Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called savages? Sadly, very, very few actually did, notable among them a Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas. His

we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.

War is one of the hallmarks of the old humanity.)

Traditional theologians use another word for solidarity: incarnation

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart—that's what life is about, that's its task. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters

I'm often asked if I have hope for Christianity. These days, I say, "My hope for Christianity depends on my hope for humanity, and we humans are not trending well." And in that realization, I find a compelling reason to stay Christian.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.

The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small designs of happiness and love.

War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus

We humans exist on hope. It's what separates us from thinking machines.

If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!

Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence—

Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. "I am the pinnacle of humanity—a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

The human race is bound not only by common genetics but also by universal standards of behavior. Those who do not willingly follow the guidelines of civilization can no longer be considered truly human. —Bene Gesserit axiom

The Butlerian Jihad has been over for thousands of years, and still humankind acts as if we're terrified rodents hiding from shadows. There is an anti-Ixian prejudice throughout the Imperium because we make complex machines. People don't understand what we do, and misunderstanding breeds suspicion.