Quotes About Humanity

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

All the world is bitter as a tear

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.

Mutilate not even a rabid dog.

the concept of race simply refused to provide unambiguously different types. To put it differently, no 'pure' races could be identified.

all humans are descended from an original population in Africa.

Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history'd have us be. We're only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here's to those others who helped, that's my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.

It isn't a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without.

Hope is exactly that, that's all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we're here for a mere blink of the eyes, that's all.

I'm rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.

It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.

The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.

People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.

across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other.

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends.

For what is a disciple? He is one who seeks to learn a new rhythm, to enter a new field of experience, and to follow the steps of that advanced humanity who have trodden ahead of him the path, leading from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Gawd might forgive but people never will.

All of these people were simply asking to be given basic rights that were automatically accorded to all other humans:

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.