Quotes About Humanity

He makes flat war with God, and doth defy With his poor clod of earth the spacious sky.

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.

The critics of modernity were warning that one must be vigilant against the demands of hyperorganized commercial society and consumerism lest they undermine one's true humanity.

Since God works among imperfect human beings in historical settings, "pure" or "perfect" Christianity can seldom if ever exist in this world. God in his grace works through our limitations; for that very reason we should ask for the grace to recognize what those limitations are. So we may—and ought to—carefully identify the cultural forces which affect the current versions of Christianity.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockrow.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn, and dead, participates - men are no more than 'bits of paper blown on the cold wind . . .

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are.

And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion. And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million or two humans And never miss them. Yet what a gap in the world, the missing white frost-face of that slim yellow mountain lion! D. H. Lawrence Mountain Lion

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor subscribe to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor enjoy a meal at a smart restaurant.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.

For though despair is often close at hand, it never triumphs, and through all the story runs, a sustaining bond, the primal force which humanity shares with all earthly creatures, the sheer will to live.

En cuanto al ser humano, no debe esperarse que escape, en su larga trayectoria, a la suerte de los animales inferiores. Si hay una ley biológica de flujo y reflujo, su situación es ahora muy peligrosa. Durante diez mil años su número ha aumentado constantemente a pesar de las guerras, las pestes y las hambres. Biológicamente, la prosperidad del ser humano es demasiado larga.