Quotes About Humanity

I want to emphasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.

Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?

You are created in God's image.

Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

Die offenkundig demokratische Gesinnung des Kindes kennt keine Hierarchie. Das Schicksal eines Tagelöhners in seinem Schweiß, eines hungrigen Altersgenossen, eines gequälten Pferdes und eines geschlachteten Huhnes machen es eine Zeitlang traurig. Hund und Vogel, Schmetterlinge und Blume stehen ihm nahe, in einem Steinchen oder in der Muschel sieht es seinen Bruder.

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus."

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world's most perfect haiku.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Nature didn't disturb the peace, people did.

Desire is what makes us human. No wonder—God planted it in us to lure us back to God's self.

the nature of desire is the same. We notice others' desire. It shapes ours. ... Desire is what makes us human. No wonder—God planted it in us to lure us back to God's self.

God, on Christian lights, isn't just high, lofty, far away, distant, unsullied with us. God, in Christian thought, is Jewish. Human. Not just great and holy but little and lowly. ... God becomes our neighbour. ... If it takes a neighbour's desire to set ours alight, then the one living and true God will become that flesh-and-blood neighbour.

the person who is working is always more important than the work the person is doing.

Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.

He had always found this a comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans failed to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking

It was more important to be honest. "We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous terms, until our very moral senses are dulled," she wrote. "Let things be shown, let them come forth in their real colors, and humanity will not be so prone to a sin which is glossed over by a dainty public!

We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous terms, until our very moral senses are dulled," she wrote. "Let things be shown, let them come forth in their real colors, and humanity will not be so prone to a sin which is glossed over by a dainty public!

Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.

Each and every prayer is a tiny piece of a great cosmic puzzle, which when fitted together will allow for the completion of the grand picture of the Almighty Lord's plan for humanity and the universe.

I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world ' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.