Quotes About Humanity

At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.

I do not mean to assault anyone's sensibilities, but once you face death or reach out and touch it with your hand, or look into the half-lidded eyes of a woman or child or man whose life has been violently taken, you bond with them and silently try to console them for the theft of their lives. You promise to carry them in your heart and never tell anyone about it. I think that's what humanity is about.

We all got human weaknesses, noble mon. All I got to do is see her on TV and my Johnson starts barking.

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

Are the very rich very different from you and me? What an absurdity. How about this as a better question: In what way are they similar to us?

I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.

There are no limits to kindness and consideration.22

The South was rebelling "not in the interest of general humanity, but of a domestic despotism. … Their motto is not liberty, but slavery.

He said he loved Blue. He said he loved the evil in Blue. He loves the evil in all people. Because in loving their evil, he loves the evil in himself enough to surrender it to God, who washes it clean. He's loving what God made, is what he said.

Slavery done made a fool out of a lot of folks. Twisted 'em all different kinds of ways. I seen it happen many a time in my day. I expect it'll happen in all our tomorrows, too, for when you slave a person, you slave the one in front and the one behind.

Am I black or white?" "You're a human being," she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" "Will I be a black nobody or just a nobody?" "If you're a nobody," she said dryly, "it doesn't matter what color you are.

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

People love sin. Sin hardens their hearts. Therefore, they will not receive the gospel of the kingdom of God when it is preached to them.

None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10–12

This was not a just war after all—it was just a war: yet another exercise in consecrated barbarity and sanctified slaughter.

Their mothers were nobodies, Marian (Max's mom) said. Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of trash . Well, you're right there, I said. Because we are a superrace. And I did come from trash .

The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.

No one is going to admit it to you, but we're all miracles out here, every last one of us.

Justice doesn't necessarily make the world a better place. Compassion always does.

If we are to help save the human race, we must first recognize the humanity in all, no matter their station in life.

Be kind, because everyone you meet could be fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.