Quotes About Humanity

You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. —Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

She knew, even at that young age, that you cannot separate good and evil cleanly, that they are conjoined twins sharing a single heart.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It is about the people who fill the spaces between them.

The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don't let go and let God. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. There's just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it's our time.

It's so easy to forget,' she murmured, 'how underneath, we're all exactly the same.

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint.

Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.

monsters I have ever known were men," I said.

This is what it means to be human, Bex thought. We are all just canvases for our scars.

Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump us all together just because we're Jews?

Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.

We may not see eye to eye, but we can respect each other's opinions and find the truth in them. Perhaps in those honest conversations, instead of demonizing each other, we might see each other as imperfect humans, doing our best. —Jodi Picoult, March 2018

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. There

Be a mensch, my mother told me, no matter what situation you're in. Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

I look around at the curl of clouds in the sky, the sun glittering on the ocean in the distance. A picture postcard. Just a few hundred miles away this virus is killing people so fast that they don't have room for bodies, but you would never know it from where I stand.

believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it.

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's because it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.

You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans' having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It gave a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it. The

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

V??ná válka je daleko spíÅ¡ dílem odsuzujícím válku, než antimilitaristickým románem