Quotes About Humanity

What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

at the moment, the number of fundamentally selfish and self-interested people that human civilization could tolerate, particularly in the social tranche that could actually have an impact on the fate of humanity, had shrunk considerably

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

So they sealed Earth off from the rest of humanity to keep the people there from knowing just how perfectly they're being held in stasis. Manufactured a disease-they called it the Crimp-and told the people on Earth it was an alien infection. Used it as an excuse to quarantine the planet. They let it flare up every generation or two just to maintain the pretense.

The Forever War

It's your job to save humanity, Perry." "No pressure there

No one wants the Interdependency to end. Including the House of Wu. There's too much money and power at stake," Attavio VI said. "And the survival of humanity doesn't matter?" Cardenia asked, incredulously. "Not if it means the end of the Interdependency.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough

No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan

Of all the complexities of the ten thousand things, the self-consciousness of man is ten thousand times the most complex.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!

I'm jus' pain covered with skin.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.