Quotes About Humanity

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Unde omnis lex humanitus posita intantum habet de ratione legis, inquantum a lege naturae derivatur. Si vero in aliquo a lege naturali discordet, iam non erit lex sed legis corruptio.

In like manner humanity understood is only in this or that man; but that humanity be apprehended without conditions of individuality, that is, that it be abstracted and consequently considered as universal, occurs to humanity inasmuch as it is brought under the consideration of the intellect, in which there is a likeness of the specific nature, but not of the principles of individuality.

But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.

it remains for us to treat of His image,

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.

The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

What is the world? A heap and muster of men, without the word of God.

I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.

but we must show them that shedding blood should have nothing to do with being a man." This of course was said by someone who was not of the male sex. If she had created men they would have been nicer than the ones turned out by God.

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.

Ausgerechnet der Mensch ist unmenschlich.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

From beginning to end, the biblical story is the story of the creation of humanity, the fall of humanity, and the redemption of humanity.

Humanity is God's constant preoccupation throughout the Bible. The Christian study of God cannot neglect God's own prevailing interest—the redemption of humanity. No Christian theology can speak only of God and never of human beings.

God the Son, by being truly human without ceasing to be truly God, is both equal to the Father and less than the Father—equal by nature and less by volition to service. By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.

Just as God stepped out of his nature to become a partaker of our humanity, so we are called to step out of our nature to become partakers of his divinity" (Hilary of Arles, Intro. Comm. on 2 Pet. 1.4).