Quotes About Humanity

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact