Quotes About Humanity

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

In His humanity Christ depended not on His own power, but upon His almighty Father in heaven.

The true history of mankind will be, in the strict sense, the history of free individuals, so that the interest of the whole will be woven into the individual existence of each.

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Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Der Lebensschutz des potentiellen Opfers soll mehr wiegen als die Menschenwürde des potenziellen Täters.

Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.

Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden [...] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen.

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.

either humanity, with all its culture, is a means for the unconscious, unreasonable, and purposeless world-power, or it is a means for the glorifying of God.

the subduing of the earth, that is, the whole of culture, is given to him, and can be given to him only because he is created after God's image; man can be ruler of the earth only because and in so far as he is a servant, a son of God.

The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;

Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.

Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he can do the one just because he can do the other.

Language is the soul of a nation, the custodian of the goods and treasures of humankind, the bond that unites human beings, peoples, and generations, the one great tradition that unites in consciousness the world of humankind, which is one by nature.