Quotes About Humanity

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Isn't that the whole idea?' I asked. 'It's supposed to stop them from being criminals!' She shook her head. 'That's not what I mean. A lot of people make bad mistakes. But being in jail can make them feel like a mistake is all they are. Like they aren't even people anymore.

That's not what I mean. A lot of people make bad mistakes. But being in jail can make them feel like a mistake is all they are. Like they aren't even people anymore." Her bringing the chips and cookies

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

As we passed by on the stony causeway, women looked up at us from the fields, their faces furrowed with all known distresses. By their sides, lambs skipped in gaiety and innocence, and goats skipped in gaiety but without innocence, and at their feet the cyclamens shone mauve; the beasts and flowers seemed fortunate because they are not human, as those who have passed within the breath of a plague and have escaped it.

The narrative of the Bible is anchored to the fact that God became a man so He could prove how much He loves us.

Though every prospect pleases,And only man is vile.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

Più in alto salivo, più in alto andavo, più mi era chiaro che il mondo sarebbe andato avanti a esistere anche senza di me, e che tutti gli dei sarebbero scomparsi con l'umanità. Perché sono proprio gli uomini che creano gli dei.

Nur so aber hatte die Menschheit – den verschiedensten Umweltbedingungen ausgesetzt – eine Chance, sich zu entfalten und trotz Katastrophen zu überleben.

The moral achievement of statesmen must be judged in terms which take account of the limitations of human society which the statesman must, and the prophet need not, consider.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

What we think of man and God, of sin and salvation, is partly prompted by the comparative comforts or discomforts in which we live. It is a very sobering reflection on the lack of transcendence of the human spirit over the flux of historical change.

Tussen de vele stemmen van mensen is jouw stem de enige die menselijk is die weet van het verdriet dat langzaam in de bomen groeit gevoed door de aarde tot ze oud worden sterven aan de rand van wilde of onzindelijke tuinen.

Het enige dat de mensen verbindt zijn de oorlogen die ze elkaar aandoen.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Man is a successful animal, that's all.