Quotes About Humanity

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.

What is it that frightens you, Councillor Maximov? When you read about Karamzin or Karamzov or whatever his name is, when Karamzin's skull is cracked open like an egg, what is the truth: do you suffer with him, or do you secretly exult behind the arm that swings the axe? You don't answer? Let me tell you then: reading is being the arm and being the axe and being the skull; reading is giving yourself up, not holding yourself at a distance and jeering.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. That is why it finds the cross the hope of the earth.

God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

We are the great miracle of creation! But from some blows this miraculous body cannot repair itself!

In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.

Baz? insanlar haks?z yere ac? çektiÄŸinde,' derdim kendi kendime, 'ac?lar?na tan?k olanlar?n kaderi bunun utanc?n? hissetmektir.' Ama bu düÅŸüncenin verdiÄŸi sahte avuntu beni rahatlatam?yordu. -Barbarlar? Beklerken

I learned there [in Mostar] that the distance between civilization and savagery is exceedingly small and this has scared me ever since.

Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them.

Whatever our history, whatever the root of our surnames, we remain a good and decent people, and we do not bow down and we do not give up. The fire of the human spirit cannot be quenched by bomb blasts or body counts. Cannot be intimidated forever into silence or drowned by tears. We have endured worse before. We will bear this burden and all that come hereafter because that's what ordinary men and women do. No matter what. This has not made us weaker. It has only made us stronger.

Vocês são todos uma e a mesma espécie, têm os mesmos objectivos, os mesmos sonhos, os mesmos medos... Comem a mesma comida, dormem o mesmo sono... Por isso vão contra a vossa natureza quando se dividem para tornar mais fácil matarem-se uns aos outros. Países, bairros, credos, nomes, partidos, clube. Vocês matam-se uns aos outros por um par de ténis.

We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much and the best of us is washed away.

Humans were a lot of things- bad drivers, nosy, dangerous because so many of them were stupid and there were to many of them on the planet.

The important point here is that the idea of "heaven" as the eternal hope of the righteous has no structural place in the story. It is simply irrelevant and extraneous to the plot. Heaven was never part of God's purposes for humanity in the beginning of the story and has no intrinsic role as the final destiny of human salvation.

Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles. Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

No matter your race, creed, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, we protect and serve. Because you could get dead.'" "Even if you were an asshole. We added an addendum." On

People, she thought, could be unbelievably stupid.

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were—sex, race, tax bracket—death leveled it all out.

To have birthed and bred her, beaten and raped her all for selling her to other scum. What god made such creatures as that and set them to prey on innocents?

I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?

mostly suck—it's the law of averages, I figure, especially when you're on the job. Then you cross paths with people like that. Bad shit's happened to them, seriously bad shit, but they still come out of it decent.

Stuff it, Jerry. This isn't just police business. It's humanity's business. Humanity, Jerry!

Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.