Quotes About Humanity

Treat other people with respect and dignity until they prove unworthy of respect; however, dignity is the right of all people." -Michael Cook

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.

A life was no goddamn thing in the end, he thought. Bits and pieces of make-believe cobbled together to look halfways human, like some stick-and-rag doll meant to scare crows out of the garden. No goddamn thing at all.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

Human hearts love one day but are indifferent the next. God alone doesn't change.

In comparison with the value of one soul, all the sacrifices we make are small in comparison.

We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and blood. Our early martyrs were real men and women, with their own personalities, their flaws and their greatness. We are no different.

We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.

We are all weak men. I am weak in ways that you are not. You are weak in a way that I am not. These are the thorns in the flesh that keep us both from becoming puffed up.

Objects being easier to destroy than human beings, it is necessary at times to turn human beings into objects.

do not understand why death is still at work. I think its time is short, and it will fiercely fight to the last gasp. It is this gasp we now endure. Until it is finished, evil will go on casting insults into the secret face of God and use us too!

Koristiti se drugim ljudskim bi?em kao objektom,?ak i u privatnosti vlastitih misli,zna?i poniziti bi?e te osobe. To zna?i dehumanizirati i samoga sebe i drugoga.

For the first time in his life he understood that he was like all men, and all were like him. They too were called to love, and they too feared love. Germans, Russians, and Poles, Gentiles and Jews, good men and bad, rich and poor—all clinging to their weapons of defense, all dwelling in terror of absolute nakedness.

At our last meeting, we spoke of the general parameters of an apocalypse. Apocalypses contain real men and women, and children—no less the final Apocalypse. Do you understand that in those days every human being will be put to the test? Each will be asked to render an account of himself? Do you realize how universal this trial will be? How dreadful will be the cost of faithfulness?

We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us

To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.

It is very difficult", he said aloud. "It is very difficult for a man to believe that God loves him, if he does not know the love of another human being.

Kakva bi utjeha bila imati vlastite organske prijatelje i brinuti se za njih u ovomu usamljenom svemiru. Poput ljudi, oni su kombinacija trnja i zvijezda.

Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.

To do so, even in the defense of good, would be to be doubly defeated. I believe that is Satan's ultimate objective. Why would a fallen angel want to kill six million, or sixty or a hundred million, or even the whole human race? What would that prove? That he is bad? He already knows that, and God knows it too. No, the prize he is after is no less than to seduce all mankind into his rebellion. And to do it in the name of the good. That would be his masterstroke.

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything

Man is a creature of Heaven and earth, but he no longer knows it. He no longer knows himself.