Quotes About Humanity

You must think I'm some kind of nut, but it's just . . . I don't know, it's just that I can't take what's happening in the world. I can't take all these people getting shot. I can't take this war. I just thought we were supposed to be better than that. I really did believe we were on the dawn of a new age.

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

Had malice not become a trusted friend to humankind, I should have applauded all technical endeavours.

One of the best things any human must do, is to bleed for the others.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

This work was throwing me into the intimate functioning of people's lives.

For so long I'd been doing what I'd accused other people of doing—I was seeing the deafness, not the people.

The gospel isn't just a church talk. It's not just a good sermon. It tells every human what we need to know in the deepest part of our souls—that we have enormous worth to God.

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

Si on a regardé un homme jusqu'à ne plus voir en lui que ce qui le fait différent des autres, le particulier en lui, il est bouleversant de retrouver avec d'autant plus de force qu'on l'oubliait déjà, que l'essentiel en lui c'est ce qui ressemble aux autres

Bir tek gülücük anlatmaya yeter Ä°nsan olman?n müziÄŸini

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Hence it was necessary that Christ, as our Mediator, should be prophet, priest, and king. As Prophet He represents God with man; as Priest He represents man in the presence of God, and as King

she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity. Looking

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .