Quotes About Humanity

The noted archaeologist Richard Leakey ascribes the essence of what makes us human to the reciprocity system: "We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food and their skills in an honored network of obligation,"9

In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes!Man has Forever."

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.