Quotes About Humanity

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

In philosophical anthropology ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

A man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his ignorance of his fellow man.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren't just results. They're a process.

We're sorry for him because a germ he didn't have anything to do with got inside him and twisted him out of shape. Maybe we ought to feel the same way about guys with twisted egos.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone.

Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.

The poorest being that crawls the earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Landlord

Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw?

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us—I too have a hand here. The