Quotes About Humanity

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.