Quotes About Humanity

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

We wanted a labor force, but humans came.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Polish women and children were used as human shields for the advance of German troops.

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless … It discards all the parameters to which we defer in times of peace and which we called the rights of man. It does not recognise the privileges of the wounded man or of the doctor and it does not distinguish between non-combatants and the fighting part of the population.

It seems a fair test of any political movement to enquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane.

We oft have battled for an empty name And sought by dogma, edict, creed, To send each other to the flame. Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul Nailed to the Cross to die ? If not: Then why these divisions at all? Christ's love doth enfold you and I. His pure sweet love is not confined By creeds which segregate and raise a wall. His love enfolds, embraces Humankind ;

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.

Nuestra misión actual es, antes bien, asegurar que en el futuro no vuelva a perderse la capacidad para la teoría y para la acción que nace de esta [...] Debemos luchar para que la humanidad no quede desmoralizada para siempre por los terribles acontecimientos del presente, para que la fe en un futuro feliz de la sociedad, en un futuro de paz y digno del hombre, no desaparezca de la tierra.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies, but only universal, national, or popular interests, class interests, family interests, and "universal human interests".

The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.

How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings—Man!

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters

All men have crimes, and most of them are hidden.

There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.