Quotes About Humanity

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Emptying the ocean with a thimble again, our thimbles so tiny, and the ocean of need so huge.

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." —Anne Frank

Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire." —Talmud

The world goes on. People are born, and die, and others are born after them. It is only our own sadness that is so painful.

and all the people who were

Estéril es la persona que no puede amar, que no puede dar nada, que vive encerrada en sí misma. Todo eso es lo que importa y nada de eso eres tú, Sam. Tú no eres así.

Et alors que je les regardais faire, que je rencontrais leurs regards, que je touchais leurs mains, j'ai cessé d'avoir peur pour ne plus ressentir qu'une profonde humilité face à leur chaleur et à leur humanité. J'eus soudain honte de la mauvaise opinion que j'avais eue d'eux des années durant. Ce fut un des moments les plus marquants de ma vie.

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.

I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

Bloody humans!' I grumbled, kicking a postbox in anger. 'Bloody Vampires! We should all be turtles or something!

Nothing's as awful as slavery...

It had been a dangerous gamble — and unfair to the Hemlocks, who knew nothing of their role in the deadly game — but sometimes you have to take chances. Was it wise to risk five lives for the sake of one? Probably not. But it was human . If I'd learned one thing from my one encounter with the crazy vampaneze, it was that even the undead could be human. We had to be — without a touch of humanity, we'd be like Murlough, nothing more than bloodthirsty monsters of the night.

Humans are animals, too," he told me. "If a vampire kills a human, then yes, he is evil. But one who just takes a little blood to fill his rumbling belly … where is the harm in that?

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose? You would have been better off living five years as a human than five hundred as a monster.

What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?