Quotes About Humanity

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

The story of a love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

If we don't tell our stories to each other, we lose the opportunity to find what binds us together, as human beings and spiritual beings.

What I know to be true is this: the crimes of any religious institution do not negate the value of universal love and the religious ideals at its core. Sadly, human institutions will always be flawed reflections of the values they hope to embody.

Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human.

T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.

I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not.

So many of our stories about nature are about testing ourselves against it, setting ourselves against it, defining our humanity against it.

Hands are for other human hands to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.

Wild things are made from human histories.

No war can ever be just air.

That is why the girl who was me when I was small loved watching birds. She made herself disappear, and then in the birds she watched, took flight. It was happening now. I had put myself in the hawk's wild mind to tame her, and as the days passed in the darkened room my humanity was burning away.

The wild can be human work.

They are all things in themselves, but we make them sensible to us by giving them meanings that shore up our own views of the world. In my time with Mabel I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not.

I couldn't let that suffering happen. Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human.

I had only just escaped from humanity,' White wrote, 'and the poor gos had only just been caught by it.

You are a man whose eyes are bright with unspilled tears when you tell me of the horror of your journey here.

Science encourages us to reflect upon the size of our lives in relation to the vastness of the universe or the bewildering multitudes of microbes that exist inside our bodies. And it reveals to us a planet that is beautifully and insistently not human.

There are good people, kind people, too. I've got to keep thinking of them. I've got to remember them. There are people who help. Not only people who destroy.

She retained the opinions of trees: one of them being that it was best not to have anything to do with human folk. "Firstly, they cut us down," Rowan said. "Secondly they're all insane, though I suppose they can't help that, being rooted in water instead of earth.

We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us.

lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another