Quotes About Humanity

Yo soy tú. Tengo los mismos problemas y frustraciones que tú».

asking myself from time to time if it might be possible to teach English in such a way that people would stop killing each other

Kõik algab ja lõpeb inimesega, kes katuselt alla kukub. Kuid vahepeal on nüüd terve rida seoseid, milles võibolla iialgi selgust ei saa.

The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.

Maybe this is where his humanity lies, in the traces of growing up with a sense of unfathomable insecurity: the need to plan, to make his world predictable.

You can learn something about your fellow human beings from what they write in the margin

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

There's not a single human being who doesn't find it a relief to be forced to tell the truth.

Technological culture has not destroyed the peoples of the Arctic Ocean. Believing that would be to think too highly of culture. It has simply acted as a catalyst, a cosmic model for the potential - which lies in every culture and every human being - to centre life around that particularly Western mixture of greed and naïveté. What they want to coerce is the Other, the vastness, that which surrounds human beings. It is the sea, the earth, the ice.

The "transfer" does not diminish Christ nor make us divine on our own, but it does "link" or "connect" us into the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, for he is the new Adam and the representative new human being through whom we receive new life. Like open-source code and cloud-computing, Jesus Christ is the cloud and the main server to whom we are reconnected by faith and spiritual surrender.

Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that we're not really so far gone.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

there was nothing really more important other than treating animals and people with decency and respect—

Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Jack knew that what Lloyd meant was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

People need people, more than any other being needs any other being, and Jack thought as he sifted the remnants of the nightmare that the need makes us particularly vulnerable.

It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I liked him a lot better in that moment.

The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

In making my work meaningful to others, I had also made it compelling to myself. No longer was I just working on somebody else's problems. I was part of an intellectual enterprise with relatively well-defined goals, which might actually make a difference to humanity.

The question should not be "What would Jesus do?" but rather, more dangerously, "What would Jesus have me do?" The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.

The history of the human race doesn't make happy reading, does it? I've seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I've seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we'd have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.