Quotes About Humanity

Humans are beautifully imperfect and complex. We're horny, ass-saving, ego-driven drug fiends, among other, more noble things.

What are your spiritual beliefs? I do not believe in God as most people conceive of God, but I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us. I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.

Your voice was joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one. I suppose that's what we all are. You helped me understand that.

The mediocrity principle establishes our worth as equal to that of the universe.

History teaches that evil at its most exalted is merely a wretched excess of good.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, it thought, savoring the brute constancy of humans and their achievements, no matter how far through the ages they slithered. It was over 800 years old, and didn't look a day over seventy-five.

You ever see that thing on old tombstones, that Momento mori? That's Latin. You know what it means?" The roommate gave a negative grunt. "It means something like, 'Remember you gotta die.' And that's what this whole thing is like, like one great big reminder that we're all gonna go sooner or later, so we better be damn good to each other while we're here.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart.

World is full of nice people,if u cannot find one be one !

Because like you, this girl is a person who needs a lot of love.' 'Love? I need a lot of love?' 'Of course, you do. And everyone else does too. Funny we never say it. It is okay to scream in public if you are hungry "I'm starving". It is okay to make a fuss if you are tired "I'm so sleepy". But somehow we cannot say "I just need some more love". Why can't we say it, Shyam? It is as basic a need.

They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

The world maddens some, and brutifies others.

For the story — from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work, or daytime television.

A beating heart needs a soul to go with it, or it's nothing but a machine.

...is it not kin of the human family with its roots in the earth and its arms stretching toward the sky as if to seek and to know the great mystery?

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed... licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

He who hates vice hates mankind.