Quotes About Humanity

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

There are eight other instances in the book of Orwell noting the scents of his environment, most of them repugnant. There are two points to be made here. First, sensitivity to odor is a tic of much of his writing. Second, and more unsettling, it is the smell of humanity that repels him. When he notes the smells of nature, even of the barnyard, it is almost always with approval. In contrast, he is always ready to be horrified by mankind.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

The natural state of man is war. I think that peace is an interval for preparation." The novel is significant because

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.

Moreover, the fact that the Son of God became man through being conceived by the Holy Spirit and being born of the Virgin Mary, that is, not of the will of the flesh nor of the will of a human father, but of God (John 1:13), means that at this decisive point in the incarnation the distinctive place and function of man as male human being was set aside.

When King spoke to those men—trash collectors, remember, who came from society's lowliest ranks—he said, "So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, of those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it has dignity, and it has worth.

SDS's wildly optimistic first principle: that all humans were "infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled capacities for reason, freedom, and love.

This is modern liberalism in action: an unregulated virtue-exchange in which representatives of one class of humanity ritually forgive the sins of another class, all of it convened and facilitated by a vast army of well-graduated American professionals, their reassuring expertise propped up by bogus social science, while the unfortunate objects of their high and noble compassion sink slowly back into a preindustrial state.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do to people, whether we help or harm them.

We are taught to speak with courtesy to strangers," Farouk went on. "For we do not know the evil or the good that may be in such a person's heart." The

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

That long drip of human tears.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Alas for the rarityOf Christian charityUnder the sun!

O God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

O men, with sisters dear!O men, with mothers and wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.