Quotes About Humanity

It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.

Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Whether it's words of encouragement or simple gestures to show appreciation. Remember, all supports goes a long way. Some things may not mean much to you but the world to someone else.

IF YOU BELIEVE A HUMAN AI COMPARES TO AN ARCHEON ANCILLA, YOU ARE MORE OF A MICROCHIP THAN I THOUGHT.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop above their heads, where the weary helmsmen tended the new steering-oar and Babbington stood at the con, the men listened intently; it was the first sound of human life that they had heard, apart from the brief Christmas merriment, for a time they could scarcely measure.

If men were to consider what they were at - if if they were to look around them, and reflect upon the cost of life in a universe where prisons, brothels, madhouses, and regiments of men armed and trained to kill other men are so very common - why, I doubt we should see many of these poor mewling little larval victims, so often a present misery to their parents and a future menace to their kind.

man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have – for what they are – are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

I speak only for myself, mind – it is my own truth alone – but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have – for what they are – are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

A possible explanation may be this: in addition to professional competence, cheerful resignation, an excellent liver, natural authority and a hundred other virtues, there must be the far rarer quality of resisting the effects, the dehumanising effects, of the exercise of authority. Authority is a solvent of humanity: look

Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;

Bless you, Jack, an inch of steel in the right place will do wonders. Man is a pitiably frail machine

I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.

Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.

There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.

No animal suffers worse than a human being.