Quotes About Humanity

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.

Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.

Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.

In every generation until mine, most of humanity lived with the night sky. As people began moving into cities and using more illumination, the sky gradually disappeared. There must be a corresponding loss of wonder without the stars to remind us where we stand in creation.

Those laboratory animals have done us no harm. They are tortured and murdered in the name of science. I know, I used to do it myself to my great shame. Is the benefit to humanity worth the sacrifice of so many animal lives? I say, No.

All men are born free: just not for long.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, your mother,father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend is dead from a b-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy misson, air attack, Tet offensive, My Lai massacre, failed escape, I would not scream but make of my body a net, a tarp, stretched taut across the sky, the sea, over every village and hamlet, prepared to catch everything from the sky, shade everything on the ground, rain water and receive yyou, war, with arms outstretched

Esteban Arcadievitch sonrió; conocía perfectamente los sentimientos de Levine y no ignoraba que, para éste, todas las jóvenes del universo se dividían en dos categorías: una compuesta de todas las jóvenes existentes, llenas de todas las debilidades humanas: las señoritas comunes. La otra, formada solamente por 'ella', sin la menor imperfección y por encima de la humanidad entera.

Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

We are none of us free. We are tethered by our connections to other people, those we know as well as those we will never meet. What tethers us is our ability our responsibility to imagine them, to fathom their lives, their circumstances, what we have in common, and what sets us apart.

the object was not to stay alive but to stay human.

Katniss should have the most reasons to hate, having been sent into the arena not once, but twice. But despite everything she's been through, she's still capable of seeing the so-called "enemy" as individuals rather than as a monolithic entity. She remembers that Octavia snuck her a roll rather than see her hungry and that Flavius had to quit during the Quarter Quell because he couldn't stop crying.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

Taal heeft te maken met de diepe natuur van de mens, de mens die is geschapen naar het beeld van God. God en de mens zijn geschapen tot gesprek

Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

But he who accomplishes a truly human work, he who does some- 33 thing really great and victorious, is never spurred to his task by those trifling attractions called by the name of "prizes," nor by the fear of those petty ills which we call "punishments." If

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.