Quotes About Humanity

We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

Yes: in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone .

Is there no life, but these alone? Madman or slave, must man be one?

Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,??persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection

No individual life can be truly prosperous, passed . . . in the midst of men who suffer.

So while we praise and esteem the zeal of the Nonconformists in walking staunchly by the best light they have, and desire to take no whit from it, we seek to add to this what we call sweetness and light, and develope their full humanity more perfectly; and to seek this is certainly not to be the enemy of the Nonconformists.

Humans are selfish creatures. But love is the selfless act we are all capable of.

He found it funny that his socialist friends did not actually want to live in such places either. "I realized that socialism is not a political proposal, not an economic plan. Socialism is the residue of Judeo-Christian faith, without religion. It is a belief in community, the goodness of the human race and paradise on earth.

Despite the severest deprivation in early childhood, these people are neither living a greedy, me-first style of life, nor are they seeking gain at the expense of others. None express the idea that the world owes them a living for all they have suffered. On the contrary, most of their lives are marked by a compassion for others" (p. 233).

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

If you said to me, "I do not love, I have never loved," then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say "I do not hate, I have never hated," then you sound like half a man.

As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.

Y esto podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos: que aquel por quien Dios hizo los mundos, no solo el gran mundo, sino el pequeño mundo del hombre, formó el cuerpo humano al principio según el modelo que diseñó para sí mismo en la plenitud del tiempo.

That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected , and near his heart to be beloved.

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

be kind because everyone you'll ever meet is fighting a hard battle." Wow. What a fabulous insight.

The lesson I learned was that someone can look perfectly fine, but you never know what is going on inside—and everyone has something going on inside.

The only thing these online connections and communities prove is that as human beings we have an incredible need and hunger for meaningful interaction with each other.

We hide because we think people will love us less if they truly know us, but the opposite is true in most cases. If we are willing to take the risk and reveal ourselves for who we are, we discover that most people are relieved to know that we are human. Why? Because they are human, too, and are filled with the same fear as you. In most cases, you will find that the things you thought would cause people to stop loving you actually lead them to love you more.

Some people are hungry for comfort; others are hungry to belong; still others for success, sex, safety, adventure, security, travel. To be human is to be hungry. Do you know what you are hungry for?

We're all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged.