Quotes About Humanity

Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.

An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.

Aprendió la dura lección que Moisés había tratado de enseñar a los israelitas siglos atrás: cualquier cosa que los seres humanos toquen, llevará un defecto fatal. Los buenos tiempos representan el verdadero peligro; nuestros mejores esfuerzos nos llevan a la ruina. En resumen, los seres humanos no son dioses, y ese entendimiento llevó al Maestro a la desesperación.

In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.

In a letter to his brother, C. S. Lewis mentioned that he prayed every night for the people he was most tempted to hate, with Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini heading the list. In another letter he wrote that as he prayed for them, he meditated on how his own cruelty might have blossomed into something like theirs. He remembered that Christ died for them as much as for him, and that he himself was not "so different from these ghastly creatures.

He has such kind eyes." "Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.

poet Józef Wittlin inquired in 1946.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Those who have been persecuted are, alas, all too often the persecutors of tomorrow.

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

There is a great sadness in knowing that men of genius are not able to transcend the limits of patriarchy. Had I but known that the works I so cherished had been done by human beings, not gods, and that great women, including feminists, had also once lived and worked, I suspect I might have been able to break free sooner from a whole host of fatally misguided notions. What we don't know can hurt us.

Gossip isn't scandal and its not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same

I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

C'est la pratique de la torture qui permet de distinguer à coup sûr l'homme de l'animal.

Il est urgent de placer l'humain et la nature au cÅ"ur de nos préoccupations et l'économie à leur service. S'obstiner à maintenir le profit illimité et la croissance indéfinie comme fondement de l'ordre mondial est totalement suicidaire.

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

Le temps est venu de consacrer des moyens à la vie et non à la mort avec les armements qui n'en finissent pas de se perfectionner.

As a result, man is the only successful type which has remained as a single interbreeding group or species, and has not radiated out into a number of biologically separated assemblages

Az ember az Å' számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.