Quotes About Humanity

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.

There are always monsters," the old man replied. "Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.

Oppenheimer was right: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Everybody's mean sometimes. That's because our flesh is weak and we're loaded with sin.

Can't do much about it as person's the root of personal. We can't stop being people, or it wins.

We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you've been the police, you just don't understand why people do what they do to people.

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be." "I

People are stupid more than half the time.

Love costs nothing. I wonder at those who can't feel it, or won't give or take it.

A] person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.

A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

In fact, we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth.

Romans 5:14—Is it fair to judge all people because of Adam's sin?

you can love completely without complete understanding. That I have known and preached. my father said.

it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)

Beginning in late 1914 and accelerating over the next three years, the Turkish government rounded up Armenian men for forced labor, worked many to death building a trans-Turkish railway for German business interests, then shot the survivors.

make a fundamental change in the relationship between nations, organisations, religions and politics start to listen, learn and offer badly needed resources stop trying to impose our will on the rest of the world train our armies to offer constructive resolution to conflict not destructive work on our inner life and develop our humanity.

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.

Sometimes I find myself wishing that the world would end in my lifetime, since that would be oddly flattering; we'd all be part of humanity's apex. That's about as great an accomplishment as I can hope for