Quotes About Humanity

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

monde se tourne vers nous et dise : ces gens sont d'une race qui ne sait pas mourir... nous sommes un témoignage.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

Were we not all created in God's image, and though we are all fallen from our original state, does not a spark of divine fire remain in each of us?

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (Acts 17:26-28)

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

het is jammer, dat ons alleen maar feiten over de mens worden medegedeeld - wij hebben feiten teveel - het is iets anders wat we omtrent de mens verlangen te weten - onze gedachten, die vreemde, welke nog steeds de oorsprong zijn van ons onbegrijpelijke gedrag.

Er zijn twee soorten van mensen in de wereld. De ene was van een hard en verpletterend materiaal, de andere integendeel van een doorschijnender en meer sprokkere substantie.

Incluso la época de agobio es digna de respeto, pues es obra no del hombre, sino de la Humanidad y, por lo tanto, de la naturaleza creadora, que puede ser dura, pero jamás absurda. Si es dura la época en que vivimos, tanto más debemos amarla, empaparla de nuestro amor, hasta que logremos desplazar las pesadas masas de materia que ocultan la luz que brilla al otro lado.

En medio del ruido, la suciedad, los humos y el riesgo de accidentes, me parecían personas muy sensibles, de una humanidad innata y con una maravillosa capacidad de organización y de percepción de la realidad inmediata. Siempre me hicieron sentir bienvenido y cómodo [...] mi estancia en las fábricas fue una de las experiencias más significativas de mi vida.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not," Dr. Graham said. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

God didn't come down and kill us. I don't see God shooting children and priests. None of us met God beating up Jews and shoving them into railroad cars. This is men doing the murdering. Talk to men about their evil, kill the evil men, but pray to God. You can't expect God to come down and do our living for us. We have to do that ourselves.

There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the camps fall back to the earth and decay, and we are done killing each other, that is what we must hold. We can never let the world take our memories of love away, and if there are no memories, we must invent love all over again.

All those stars in that big streak that goes over the whole sky? You see them? Those are all the Jews who've died. All of them died and went up in the air, and the stars are the stars that they wore on their coats. The stars on the coats come off when their souls float up and the stars live up in the sky forever.

The Germans have eaten the Gypsies of Poland for breakfast, child, and then they ate the Jews for lunch, but soon it will be supper." "What will they eat then?" "All the rest of the Poles.

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.