Quotes About Humanity

To perceive others as fully human means to be saddened by the death of every single person, regardless of the population, group, or part of the world from which he comes, and regardless of our own personal acquaintance with him. If we accord him identity, then we must individualize his death [and] … if we accord him community, then we must experience his death as a personal loss.

Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

If this world is hell, one can only have compassion for those who are obliged to live in it and breathe its poisonous air.

In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.

It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.

history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

The planet, saved for another day, stokes up its slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarlet gash that take our breath away; a world at its interminable show of holy dying. And we go with it, the old gatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contribution is small, adding our handsel of warm clay.

Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference. See all the same.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.