Quotes About Humanity

Yeah. I mean, I work in a coffee shop. People here don't even see it; it's like this boring job for them—but every day people say hello to me; every day I meet someone new, who is round and bright and—scattery, made out of parts, plans and fears and love and worry and I don't even know what. I don't know how to explain it. Random and meaningful and beautiful. I know that doesn't make sense.

If God is good, how is it that the weed of evil takes root everywhere, and what is there to keep us from murdering each other in despair?

We saw so many sad and helpless people. I remember looking at people on the TeeVee from other countries who was all drenched and scared and hungry and even though Mammaloose and I don't have lots of money I never felt like those people and never thought we would look like those people. Now we were the same. We are all the same, I guess, once we are homeless, once what we know is gone.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

Many spiritual and religious teachings talk about the concept that we have forgotten who we are as spiritual beings and have come to see ourselves as human beings.

Carl Jung, who talked about the "collective unconscious," but many others have developed similar ideas. The concept is that a group of people—even humanity as a whole—develop a collective state of consciousness that affects all people who are part of the group.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. —GANDHI

A part of growing up through a violent event like this is that the veil is pulled away and you are suddenly able to see the suffering in the eyes of other people.

To be clear, concluding in brief: there is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires. Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is as good as a feast—or better.

You can't depend on Amos Ackerman. He's just a man. But God is God. He loves bigger and forgives better and gives more abundantly than nay man every could.

Girls matter. As do boys, whether big or little. Every person matters. Do you know why?" They shook their heads in unison. "We are all created in God's image. He crafted male and female, and He breathed His very own breath of life into them. He loves His creation. What God sees as valuable and important is valuable and important.

Some say that man is evil or wicked, but I hold that man at least may be reasoned with, where wolves or blizzards or falling trees are invariably unheeding of entreaties.

The matrimony of morality and laws is the ark of Western civilization. What we are witnessing is the tragic divorce of civility and humanity that results from discord between the two.

She was not a nice person, but she cleaned up the floor. She was not a nice person, but she bandaged my foot in a white piece of cloth, and gave us two of her own clean shirts to wear.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Kerrigan?" she choked, cupping his face in both of her hands. "Come back to me." Suddenly, he drew a deep breath before he opened his eyes to look up at her. Instead of their normal black hue, they were a bright, crystal blue—the same color they had been when he was human.

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." —ROBERT E. LEE

It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold

All is as it was," she said softly to the young Q. Turning to Janeway, she added, "Humanity is a stubborn thing, Kathryn Janeway. It hopes, even when all hope is gone.