Quotes About Humanity

The Bible teaches that, without God, people are morally lost. But they are also intellectually lost because they are trying to live within the limits of a worldview that is too cramped and narrow to account for their own humanity. They are forced to place their entire hope for dignity and meaning in an upper-story realm that they themselves regard as irrational and unknowable—nothing but necessary falsehoods.

When God gives people up to their idols, the result is always a reductionistic view of humanity—which ultimately unleashes harmful and destructive behavior. When we reduce people to anything less than fully human, we will treat them as less than fully human. When we define God as a something instead of a Someone, we will tend to treat humans as somethings too.

We live in a moral wasteland where human beings are desperately seeking answers to hard questions about life and sexuality. But there is hope. In the wasteland we can cultivate a garden. We can discover a reality-based morality that expresses a positive, life-affirming view of the human person—one that is more inspiring, more appealing, and more liberating than the secular worldview.

More dangerous than anger and hate is indifference. To be indifferent to suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. It is not a beginning, it is an end, and it is always the friend to the enemy. —Elie Wiesel

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan

The only forgiveness I can muster is to call him human. 

Demons are real. Since I'm not religious, I think of them as metaphors for the evil desires and impulses all humans have. A religious person can think of them as separate evil beings that can possess you. Either way, I believe they exist, lurking patiently around and in us, whispering their twisted points of view, ever alert for an opportunity. The sudden chink in your armor when you're tired, frightened, or angry. The invitation you issue in that moment of vulnerability.

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.

We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world.

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love. I

In the last episode of the Magnificent Steiner he probably turned back into a normal human being. -Wolfgang Grimmer

The people of the world, all of them, whether it is the different race or the different language or the different lifestyle, tend to only think about what we cannot share. But our brains are all the same. We are the same people. With everyone's strength, we can all share the same feelings. That much is obvious. But it won't come easily.

You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone, so I don't know where you all think you get off labelling humans with simple words and thinking you know everything you need. But most people can't live that way, even some of the time.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

You would see good in the face of Satan himself if he arrived at your door with a pitiful story and a hungry belly." "And would I be wrong to do so? If Satan needed feeding?

Children are born so small. It does not matter if they are boys or girls. They are all born so weak and so powerless.

Death, the only inevitable item on the list of life, is nonetheless such a constant matter of human creativity.

Nothing worse has happened to him than to anyone. There is no reason for him to be afraid, no more reason than any other man.

People are allowed to be weak.

But Wishbone didn't know the whole story. He hadn't seen the ravaged bodies, the burning flesh. One minute friends laughed, full of life; next minute, destroyed. Those things never escaped one's mind. Once you witnessed that, you saw evil, and it didn't live in just Americans or Japanese. It lived close by, in friends, in neighbors, and, most frighteningly, inside yourself.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature.

In this place—one can never see from one end of a street to the other, let alone men's hearts.

They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.