Quotes About Humanity

Being rich is bad and inhumane. So condemn the rich.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Was weiß denn ich vom Menschenleben? Bin freilich scheinbar drin gestanden, Aber ich hab es höchstens verstanden, Konnte mich nie darein verweben.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 130 From a letter to Sir Stanley Unwin

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

The disciples of Jesus "found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer's hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.

If your heart isn't in the right place, you're no different from the beasts in the forest.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. Douglas MacArthur

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019

A universal weakness of humanity is to equate the strength of an argument with their opinion of its maker.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

We are a race prone to monsters ... and when we produce one we worship it.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.

With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.

A particularly frightening observation: even if emission levels are reduced, by 2070 Earth will be the hottest it has been in 125,000 years, which means it will be "hotter than it has been for most, if not all, of the time since modern humans emerged as a species 200,000 years ago.

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace