Quotes About Humanity

Man has only himself to fear now . . . he has become his own worst devil.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else.

She could sense them all around her now, their pain, their hunger, their need,

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish caricature of a human being are gone. This picture is false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science.

Again, they have no idea of what could be called the evolution of the world or the evolution of society; that is, they do not look back towards a series of successive changes, which happened in nature or in humanity, as we do. We, in our religious and scientific outlook alike, know that earth ages and that humanity ages, and we think of both in these terms; for them, both are eternally the same, eternally youthful.

Ethnology or Anthropology, the science of Man, must not shun him in his innermost self, in his instinctive and emotional life.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you -- and full as much heart!

One of the students was a doctor, a German woman, and I used to watch her scouring garbage pails as though she were preparing a room for surgery.

As long as we see any person as an enemy—whether Communist, Muslim or terrorist—then the love of God cannot flow through us to reach them.

All service ranks the same with God,-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people talk of human sciences, the less effect human sciences have on man.

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

our initial response is to keep them at arm's length. At times we make ourselves feel superior, smarter, or more competent by dehumanizing or degrading those who are different.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.

Born for Love, about the essential nature of empathy.

Love, given and felt, is dependent upon the ability to be present, attentive, attuned, and responsive to another human being. This glue of humanity has been essential to the survival of our species—and to the health and happiness of the individual. And this ability is based upon what happened to you, primarily as a young child.

Dr. Perry: Love, given and felt, is dependent upon the ability to be present, attentive, attuned, and responsive to another human being. This glue of humanity has been essential to the survival of our species—and to the health and happiness of the individual. And this ability is based upon what happened to you, primarily as a young child.

Ten thousand years ago, humankind had the genetic potential to read a book, yet not one single human on the planet could read; the genetic potential to play the piano existed, yet not one person could play; the genetic potential to dunk a basketball, type a sentence, ride a bicycle—all that potential existed, but it all remained unexpressed.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered