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Quotes About Humanity

Having God is having someone to rage against," she said over coffee. "Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?
~ R.D. Rosen
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
~ R.J. Palacio
Dependency does not reduce value but rather grants dignity, a notion fundamentally counter to those for whom the freedom of birds is insulting. God's glory does not diminish ours, and our dignity is not a threat to God, for God's own glory, in part, is us. The glory of God is present to things as the graciousness of their being; things are never just themselves, they carry the weight of God along with them.
~ R.J. Snell
Technology will never deliver us from evil. Only decent people can.
~ Rabbi Abraham Cooper
People often ask: Where was God in the Holocaust? It is the wrong question. The real question: Where was man?
~ Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
~ Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
In esenta, majoritatea antagonismelor sunt similaritati ireconciliabile. S-au purtat razboaie de o suta de ani pentru a se stabili daca Isus era om in forma divina sau divinitate sub forma umana. Credintele sunt ucigase.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I bet you believe in the redemptive power of art. I'm sure you do. I did. Such a romantic notion. Art will rescue the world, lift humanity above the horrible quagmire it's stuck in. Art will save you.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
zaman modern telah membawa geografi bumi ke dekat kita,tetapi membuat kita kesulitan untuk saling berhubungan dengan manusia
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
THE fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was—. But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The very psychology of men and women about their mutual relation is changing and becoming the psychology of the primitive fighting elements, rather than of humanity seeking its completeness through the union based upon mutual self-surrender.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man
~ Rabindranath Tagore
he had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Obviously God made man to be human; but this modern product has such marvellous square-cut finish
~ Rabindranath Tagore
the India devoid of all politics, the India of no nations, whose one ambition has been to know this world as of soul
~ Rabindranath Tagore