Quotes About Humanity

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

Social laws acted and people were maimed, damaged, robbed, and strangled by forces they could not even glimpse. People were driven to sickness, to desperation, to loneliness and fear and remorse. Shaken by tears and longing, in a world they fundamentally failed to fathom, they nonetheless carried on. There was

Kindness is the only strength there is.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

by whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.

But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.

If your gaze takes in the world, a person's a puny thing. If a person is all you see, the rest falls away and she becomes the world.

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.

On the surface, we are all different. We ascribe to a variety of belief systems, attain our identity from various stories, get our customs from diverse cultures, and so on. And, rightly or wrongly, we generally define ourselves by these differences—there is no denying that. However, when we look beneath the surface, we discover certain universal elements.

Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?

The most important project at this moment in history is to reclaim a social connection to the human persona, to move away from dehumanizing and otherizing in the direction of co-humanizing.

It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there is a string that ties us all together, invisible to the naked eye.

Walk into any mosque, temple, church, or synagogue and you will find differing examples, different ways of interpreting God. The One True God is hard to find when a mishmash of human traits is constantly being projected.

We, the willing, should practice the art of lifting the ideological veil and seeing co-humanity everywhere.

Aver costretto la Natura a piegarsi alla linea retta, costituisce già una colpa che può costare all'umanità una più che giusta condanna a morte.

Disperare assolutamente dell'uomo non è spontaneo né facile; richiede vita e sforzo, lungo esercizio, volontà ferma; pochi ci arrivano. Una volta pervenuti alla dura vetta del Disperare Puro, guardarsi dalle speranze residue che possono rigerminare, dalle propensioni naturali verso il diabolico di una minore disperazione.

Questa mostruosa perdita della bellezza del mondo è il nostro castigo per averne creata una superiore per mezzo dell'arte?

La natura rifiutandosi clamorosamente di servire all'uomo, avendo altri fini, l'uomo sempre più sarà asservito all'uomo.

Nel non volere che siano posti limiti alle nascite, la Chiesa mostra che non si è estinta tutta la sua vocazione primitiva alla catastrofe assoluta.