Quotes About Humanity

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

History is the zoology of the human race.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is the study of the world's crime

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.