Quotes About Humanity

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Hope for what? I don't know. Maybe hope that humanity will always survive civilization.

The imagination, like all our faculties, has participated in the fall.

Dewey consistently argues that any theory of human beings that fails to acknowledge that human beings "are not isolated non-social atoms" is defective, a misleading abstraction of philosophers.

In this historic hour, we German Social Democrats solemnly profess our allegiance to the basic principles of humanity and justice, freedom and socialism. No Enabling Law gives you the right to annihilate ideas that are eternal

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Do we see a college education, for example, as a ticket to privilege or as a training for service to the needy? What do we teach our teenagers in this matter? Do we urge them to enter college because it will better equip them to serve? Or do we try to bribe them with promises of future status and salary increases? No wonder they graduate more deeply concerned about their standard of living than about suffering humanity. As

Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6 Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort.

True godliness does not turn us away from hurting, bleeding humanity. Rather it enables us to live fully alive in the midst of human need and enlivens our abilities to bring a healing presence to the bruised and broken around us.

That the word intelligence describes something real and that it varies from person to person is as universal and ancient as any understanding about the state of being human.

Every man has a right to be poor.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike.

Fuck this place and fuck your games. This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? Whatever

No, humans are good at growing bones, toenails, and cancer. That's about it.

You can't kill everything bad and you can't save everyone good." "I'm not sure who the good ones are anymore." "Yes you are. Because you're one. It's just sometimes hard to admit to oneself." "Fuck.

I close my eyes. "I keep coming back to this one thought: that I know everything about monsters and nothing about people.

That's because for men and women, everything is different. We walk through entirely different worlds. Open your eyes a bit. What you see might not make you happy, but it will make you more human.

Learning is miserable. People are awful. Worrying about them is the worst.

It seemed to be going well. You see, a Qliphoth can only possess an imperfect and impure body, one that's sinned. Of course, that describes all humans except maybe for the saints. When I eat a possessed person's sins, their body returns to a pure and holy state. With nowhere left to hide, the Qliphoth is ejected like someone spitting out a watermelon seed.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid.