Quotes About Humanity

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

Language is the measure of our lives, and what it means to be human.

She taught me that it was a good thing to love more than just my boy, Ethan, opening my eyes to the fact that I'd actually loved many people in my lives, that loving humans was my ultimate purpose.

It wasn't as much fun as being a doodle dog, but I now knew why these creatures, these human beings, had so fascinated me from the moment I saw them. It was because my fate was inextricably linked with theirs.

But people don't always make sense. Dogs love them anyway.

We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.

No hay perros malos, Bobby. Solo hay personas malas. Estos solo necesitan amor.

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.

Legislation in Violation of God's Natural Law Is a Scourge To Humanity

Whittaker Chambers, who was an American Communist spy at the time, suspected that a horrible crime against humanity was being enacted in Russia. He later wrote: "The great purge was in the most literal sense a massacre.... This great massacre, probably the greatest in history was deliberately planned and executed.... Those killed have been estimated from several hundred thousand to several million men and women. The process took about three years, 1935-1938.

they promised to satisfy humanity's two greatest needs: the need for universal peace and the need for universal prosperity.

From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. For the time being, our cities still shine through the night, and the fires still spread.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving allBut will his negative inversion, be prodigal.

Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

To save your world, you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, asked why?

for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."