Quotes About Humanity

Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.

That was what humans did: They left one another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into a rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hands to catch yours. Humans did not live forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad

Please," Tom whispered. "There's other gals you can steal. Don't take this one. Let her go home to her family." Breaking off, he licked his lips. "She ain't done you no harm." After a long while, Hunter returned his attention to the fire. "This Comanche does not sell his women. Not even for rifles. She goes with me." "Why this girl?" Hunter tossed a sliver of wood onto the flames. "Another will not do.

Maybe people truly did have differen corners in their hearts.

She realized now that there was no good or bad, no right or wrong, just people fighting for their lives. Wonderful people, who lived and loved and laughed.

But somewhere, sometime, someone must say, 'Today I will not seek revenge.' Someone has to say, 'We will stop' and mean it, or the bloodshed will go on and on, endless, until we destroy the entire human race.

lots of money and the power it gives them. With others it's a person. I think that's the worst kind when it's applied to a human being.

or is it that man contains within himself the seeds of evil? That even if he is placed in a paradise perfectly formed for him he will poison it, slowly, with his own jealousies and desires?

People will pay to see ugliness. It makes them feel human.

One thing I know is that we all do things we're ashamed of. Shame erupts when you violate some taboo. Anyone who says they haven't suffered shame either hasn't lived or else is lying.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Everyone dies, and yet it's unendurable. There is so much love inside of us. How do we become worthy of it? And, then, where does it go? A worldwide crescendo of grief, sustained day after day, and only one tiny note of it is mine.

The present legislative trend is to marginalize the status of sex offenders and, in the process, to regard them as less than fully human. While this strategy may make for good politics, it is a far cry from establishing sound policy. Framing the debate much like a "war" in which innocent victims are subject to devastating assault by evil, predatory, and callous offenders does nothing but inflame emotions at the expense of promoting reasoned judgment.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance. How much good to how much bad. When a person has a bigger good side, we call him a good person. But it's never absolute.

We're all just doing our best.' I left out the second part. 'Even if it doesn't look so good from the outside.

If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet?

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?