Quotes About Humanity

If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

You shall not murder.

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!