Quotes About Humanity

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

You know I've always considered women to be people.

The vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may be found in even the blackest of hearts.

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Why must we draw these lines, these fine distinctions, these labels and barriers that set us apart? Ace and nat and joker, capitalist and communist, Catholic and Protestant, Arab and Jew, Indian and Latino, and on and on everywhere, and of course true humanity is to be found only on our side of the line and we feel free to oppress and rape and kill the "other," whoever he might be. (From the Journal of Xavier Desmond)

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

times may change, but men do not.

All men are sinners.

Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?" "Because of men like you." "There are no men like me. There's only me.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes … we have plenty, as do you.

No beast was as noisy as man.

Where were the gods then? The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

As the next thousand years unfold—and the thousands beyond that—many more will be born, and live, and die. And history will continue to unfold, as strange and complex and compelling as what my humble pen was able to lay before you

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.