Quotes About Humanity

But there are as many different kinds of love as there are people in the world.

Childress's

What I didn't say to Francis was that when Lucy grabbed me on the street in Paterson that day, I couldn't understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer[.]

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

This world. This human race. It isn't divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it's divided into sexes but it isn't. It's the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.

compassion can be felt in the gut; mercy needs to be enacted with the body.

In Israel's Scriptures, God's concern is not restricted to insiders: it extends to strangers, to slaves, to women, and to any who are oppressed, for we are all children of God.

Judas, too, is in the image and likeness of the divine. He is not a demon, although he may seem to us to be one. He is a human being. And we cannot afford to demonize human beings. Judas calls us to conscience.

One way of reading this genealogy is to see that we are all, as children of Adam, also children of God. We are therefore all animated by the Spirit of God.

It's possible these men were afraid. . . . And so the first question that the priest [and] the Levite asked was, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' . . . But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Why not?" I ask, "Are we supposed to be invincible? Isn't there a price to be paid? We pillage our environment and we suffer natural disasters. The rich use the poor and we have riots. It's our history, Will. Our human history. We have [messed]-up diseases that pass on from generation to generation, repeating one too many genes or being completely absent on some random chromosome. It's not why, but when.

We are truly blind, we see another man different." "God created us in his image, not different.

Le invitaban a vino, tal vez deseaban oír sus quejas, sus lamentaciones, su odio. Pero no podían oirlo («porque tal vez nada de esto existe. Nada más que soladad o indiferencia, nada más que una corteza de hombre, triste caparazón»).

Amigo, yo bien sé lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos". Y no era más que una frase. Nada más. ¿Qué sé yo de lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos…? ¿Quiénes son, al fin y al cabo, los vencidos? ¿Me creí acaso, entonces, vencido? No: no lo pensé suiquiera. Yo mantenía mi esperanza.

Querido, sabido es que la envidia y la maledicencia humana no tienen fin. Pues si bien la inteligencia tiene un limite, la tontería y la malicia no tienen fondo visible o alcanzable

La gente buena tiene un don para irradiar cariño, para producir campos de fuerza donde poder cobijar a los demás, y en parte gracias a esas personas y a la constancia de sus gestos amables, la humanidad todavía no se ha extinguido.

All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet. Ana Monnar

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Private corporation is like a slaughter house where the humanity is butchered every day and night in the form of humiliation and atrocity on employees. The more the organization is exposed, the more it increases harassment.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsóadmiration or pity.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.